Sara Wheeler

The unbearable brutality of the Bolsheviks

Boris Kustodiev – The Bolshevik (1920) 
issue 21 May 2022

For far too long,’ Sir Antony Beevor writes, ‘we have made the mistake of talking about wars as a single entity.’ In Russia: Revolution and Civil War he sets the record straight for the bitter years between 1917 and 1921, revealing the myriad ways in which individual actions constellated and 12 million people perished.

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