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Bonine WordCount:706 “Review of Red Victory” W. Bruce Lincoln’s Red Victory tells the history of the Russian Civil War, and the triumph of the Bolsheviks over enemies foreign and domestic. It shows that through organization a government with little power can form a cohesive unit that crushed the opposition. The Russian Civil War was a struggle between the old, and the new: the more efficient Bolsheviks were more appealing than the old ways that were associated with Czarist Russia. The book starts off with the Bolsheviks taking control of the government, in there October Revolution. In each chapter Lincoln starts it with general background information, and proceeds from their earliest roots up to their present day plight. From the moment the Bolsheviks seized power there was opposition to their power-these were known as the “Whites”, who either were still loyal to the czar, or who just plain hated communism, and would fight the “Red” communists for a white government. The Reds also faced many western powers, which aided the Whites with men and material. Lincoln takes the reader on a journey of what this conflict means, and at first it seems like a regional conflict: Siberia and southern Russia, struggling against the Red hearts of Moscow and Petrograd.
Approximate Word count = 698
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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