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Russia's History

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A Brief History of Russia - Michael Kort. Russia: A History. A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya - David R. Stone. Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in ... Russia and the Russians: A History - Geoffrey A. Hosking. Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia - Martin Malia. A History Of Russia Volume 2: Since 1855 - Walter G. Moss. A History of Modern Russia from Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin - Robert Service. Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century - Natalia Pushkareva. Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война́ в Росси́и Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossiy) (November 1917 – October 1922)[1] was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces.

Russian Civil War

Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies.[4] The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919. The remains of the White forces commanded by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel were beaten in the Crimea and were evacuated in the autumn of 1920. Background[edit] February Revolution[edit] After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established during the February Revolution of 1917. Lost Marvels of Revolution-Era Russian Theater. Unfortunately, the photographs of the actors are all that remain of this 1908 premiere of Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird, produced by Stanislavsky.

Lost Marvels of Revolution-Era Russian Theater

A descriptive play-by-play of the performance can be found in the 1920 book The Russian Theater Under the Revolution by Oliver Sayler (thanks, Google book search!) , but all other images of this art noveau-inspired production have been lost to time, despite Sayler’s valiant attempts to preserve more for posterity, recounted in the book: Russian Grand Duchy. Russian Socialism. History: Revolutions - Russia. History of Russia. Russia, Crimea and Ukraine.