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Russia

Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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Russia

By: Antony Beevor
Narrated by: Rob Heaps
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts.

Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.

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©2022 Antony Beevor (P)2022 Weidenfeld & Nicolson Military Russia Wars & Conflicts
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Critic reviews

"The book is a masterpiece." (The Spectator)

"A gripping narrative history of one of the most complex episodes in modern Russian history." (Sunday Times)

"Antony Beevor's Russia is a masterpiece of history." (Daily Telegraph)
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Rob is an excellent narrator and Anthony, a wonderful writer. I'm inspired to listen to/read anything and everything that says Beevor.

Great book, excellent narration.

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I felt that the writer/reader was just totally absorbed in self… and a mixture of “Portnoy’s Complaint” with rather boring food items!!!
Always petulant… just couldn’t finish the last couple of chapters….

Spoilt self interested!

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