Russland

A masterpiece of historiography and at the same time a painful lesson for the present.

The history of Russia from 1917 to 1921 feels strikingly relevant - from the collapse of the Tsarist Empire through the October Revolution to the civil war between the Reds and the Whites - as the most brutal violence erupts on Ukrainian soil in the struggle for dominance and spheres of influence. Based on a wealth of recent archival findings, Antony Beevor paints a dense and comprehensive panorama of this world-historical era, featuring an almost unmanageable number of combatants who faced each other across a terrain stretching from Warsaw to Vladivostok, and from the Arctic Circle to the borders of the Ottoman Empire. In his compelling overview of these years, Beevor once again proves to be a captivating storyteller, organizing the complex and monstrously bloody events with great epic power and bringing them to life from a multitude of perspectives. With numerous illustrations and maps.