White Generals

<p>This account of the Russian Civil War originally published in 1971 combines a vivid narrative of the military events with a biographical discussion of the White Generals figures of the former Imperial Russian Army offices who led the separate campaigns against the Red Soviets - men such as Kornilov Alekseev Kolchak Denikin Wrangel Yudenich and the Finnish Yudeniol Marshal Mannerheim. Despite their shared designation the White Generals had no common programme. Their tragedy was that Lenin's dogmatism intransigence and ruthlessness all essential qualities in a country which had never known anything other than autocracy were alien to their characters. </p>