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| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Civil War in Russia: late 1918 - early 1919 |
| 2022-03-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Oleg Airapetov [Regnum] In the northwestern direction, the Red Army has already begun to operate. On November 17, 1918, nine months after the German offensive began after the breakdown of negotiations in Brest, the troops of the Northern Front received an order to advance with the aim of capturing Pskov and Narva. A crisis situation has also developed in Novorossiya. The hetman's troops were able to drive Makhno out of Yekaterinoslav, but then they acted without much success. Makhno himself tried to expand the territory he controlled, for the first time agreeing to an agreement with the Bolsheviks. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Also, I recommend Solzhenytzen's Red Wheel. The earliest volume is "August 1914". You can read a sample on Amazon: They left the village in the clear dawn light. As the sun rose the mountains were dazzling white with dark blue hollows, every indentation could be seen, and they looked so close that a stranger might have thought them a two hours’ drive away. The Caucasus loomed huge and elemental in a world of small man-made things. If all the people who had ever lived had opened their arms as wide as they could to carry all that they had ever made, or ever thought of making, and piled it up in swelling heaps, they could not have raised such an unbelievable mountain range. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (2014-08-18T23:58:59.000). August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition. Wikipedia |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-03-23 14:04 |
| #5 Almost sounds like Ukraine is in Africa. Worse -- They're next to Russia. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-03-23 09:44 |
| #4 By the way, thanks for these posts, Badanov. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-03-23 08:26 |
| #3 Almost sounds like Ukraine is in Africa. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-03-23 05:52 |
| #2 A region beset by century's old hatreds, bloodshed, and corruption. Simply put, an excellent neighborhood to avoid. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-23 01:39 |
| #1 Excellent details on a previous Ukrainian bloodbath. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2022-03-23 01:25 |