audiobook The Rise and Fall of the Wave of Civilizations: The Historic Pattern and the Crisis of the World Today by Carl W Wilson in History

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The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading of published memoirs and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis; they still provide the definitive history of the anti-Bolshevik movement in South Russia. Their original publication provided an inspiration for a generation of scholars of the Russian Civil War; the new edition will certainly inspire another. The armchair historian too; as well as all those interested in the fate of contemporary Russia; will find much to admire and much to ponder upon in this well told tale of one of the most bloody and tragic episodes in recent European history. - Jonathan D. Smele; University of London."The profession will be delighted to learn that this classic study of the Russian Civil War (1917-21) on its most crucial battleground is again available. Kenez's work was the first in any language to cut through the rhetoric of partisan memory and historiography in order to present a complicated and balanced view of both sides. While demythologizing Soviet historical explanations; Kenez is especially keen in displaying the enormous variety of the "White;" or anti-Communist; movement and analyzing the causes of its defeat." - Richard Stites; Georgetown University.