Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-440) and index.
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations and acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Prelude to terror; 2 Revolution and red terror; 3 Counterrevolution; 4 The white terror begins; 5 Rodomontade and girls with diamonds; 6 White terror on the magistral; 7 The white collapse begins; 8 Red onslaught; 9 White-Japanese resurgence, panic and disaster; 10 Götterdämmerung; 11 Diaspora, manchurian revival and legacy; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Glossary; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
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This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of how, in the last days of 1917, a fugitive Cossack captain brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a squalid bordertown on Russia's frontier with Manchuria. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. Nevertheless, Cossack Captain Grigori Semionov cleverly harangued the garrison into laying dow.