The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 write by I. Moffat. This book was released on 2015-02-26. The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution.
The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926
The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 write by Jonathan Smele. This book was released on 2016-01-15. The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
A Time Such as There Never Was Before - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Time Such as There Never Was Before write by Alan Bowker. This book was released on 2014-08-19. A Time Such as There Never Was Before available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.
THE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY
THE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook THE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY write by ROBERT RATCLIFFE TAYLOR. This book was released on 2013-05-15. THE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When war in Europe broke out in 1914, why did so many men from Victoria, BC, Canada, enlist enthusiastically? What did they feel about the war they were fighting? What were their personal values? Were they ever disillusioned in the trenches of the Western Front? To what extent did they enjoy combat? How did they regard the German enemy? And faced with artillery bombardment, execrable living conditions, and the fear of death or maiming, what helped them to carry on? In researching these questions, the author found that Victoria was a unique city in several ways and that some assumptions about Canadian soldiers’ trench experience may not apply to volunteers from that city. Moreover, the culture of the time was different from that of Canada today so that the enthusiasm for military life and for “the empire” may seem bizarre to young people. Ideals of masculinity may seem outdated, and the concepts of personal honor and duty, which these men supported, may be obsolete. This essay tries to understand the culture of Canada and especially that of Victoria, BC, a century ago, a pertinent exercise considering the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War.
Able to Lead
Able to Lead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Able to Lead write by Ravi Malhotra. This book was released on 2021-05-15. Able to Lead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York,y 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that followed took him north of the border where he eventually was considered by the government to be “one of the most dangerous men in Canada”. Able to Lead traces Kingsley’s political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt illuminate a figure who shaped a generation of Canadian leftists during a time when it was uncommon for disabled men to lead. They examine Kingsley’s endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how Kingsley’s life intersected with immigration law and free-speech rights. Able to Lead brings a turbulent period in North American history to life, highlighting Kingsley’s profound legacy for the twenty-first-century political left.
