- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0203341864
- ISBN-13: 978-0203341865
- Shipping Weight: 789 g
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The prevalence of Gothic themes in literature for young readers is the impetus for this collection, which fills a void in childrens literature criticism. This timely collection presents a variety of perspectives and discusses a variety of texts, and so is a valuable addition to the literature. Recommended. -- P. J. Kurtz, Minot State University, Choice
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.Book Description
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 down its arms and boarding a train that carried it back into the Bolsheviks' tenuous territory. Through such bold action, Semionov and a handful of young Cossack brethren established themselves as the warlords of Eastern Siberia and Russia's Pacific maritime provinces during the next bloody year. Like inland pirates, they menaced the Trans-Siberian Railroad with fleets of armoured trains, Cossack cavalry, mercenaries and pressgang cannon fodder. They undermined Admiral Kolchak's White armies, ruthlessly liquidated all Reds, terrorized the population, sold out to the Japanese, and antagonized the American Expeditionary Force and Czech Legion in a frenzied orchestration of the Russian Empire's gotterdammerung. Historians have long recognized that Ataman Semionov and Company were a nasty lot. This book details precisely how nasty they were.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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FINALLY!, Jun 30 2009
By Robert H. Adams "runningdoglackey" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian (Hardcover)
OK, I'm weird. I love this stuff and have been saving up to buy this book anbd finally did. Mr. Bisher adds to the literature of the Russian Civil War in Siberia using primary sources, many of them heretofore available only in the original Russian, and does a magnificent job of ferreting out the details. The reason this book is important is twofold: 1) It helps illuminate a period and a geography heretofore ignored by all but a few scholars which was singularly important in the post Geat War period not simply for the Russian Civil War but also the postwar international scramble for position. (2) The Bolsheviks had to have Siberia to make the Russian Revolution work for them because of the natural resources so desperately in short supply in European Russian following the war which is why the failure of the Kokchak government was essential to the sustainable formation of a Bolshevik government, and hence to world history across the remainer of the 20th century (e.g., World War II, Cold War, you name it). The price is somewhat daunting, but I urge anyone interested to include this study in his collection as a sine qua non of underrstanding how the seminal (or, perhaps the Semenov?) events in Siberia 1917-1922 caused the world to be the way it is now.
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Powerful, Mar 17 2009
By doclibrarian - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian (Hardcover)
This is a groundbreaking study. The Russian Civil War was still fought in Siberia and the Far East long after it was officially "over" in the Russian heartland. The book is elegantly written and meticulously documented. The mastery of sources is remarkable, considering that many sources are in Russia and therefore can be notoriously hard to penetrate. I kept thinking - how did this guy with no prior academic credits manage to turn so many stones? Found all these extinct local newspapers - hadn't they all been burned upon reading (in woodstoves), torn up for smokes, or later destroyed as evidence?I spotted just a couple of errors. On page 133 the Bolsheviks "converted Russia from the medieval Gregorian calendar to the modern Julian one". It was the other way around: old Julian out, modern Gregorian in. On page 151 Rumanians are listed among the "east European Slavs". Rumanians are not Slavic people, they speak a language of Romance (Latin) origin. These inaccuracies are peripheral to the story and can be easily fixed in the next edition.
For now, there is only one, and the price tag just kills you. Probably a limited publication, I don't know. That makes it hard to find even in academic libraries (I tried). Too bad, because this monograph is a reliable, unbiased source of knowledge, and great reading to boot.
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It's the best thing since Dr. Zhivago, Feb 6 2008
By A. Scout "Scout" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian (Hardcover)
Not since Marx, Lenin or even Putin, has a book been written that captures what is in the hearts and minds of the average "Russian".The author, James Bisher, comes from literary stock not seen in ages. A force to be reckoned with.
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