Pereira argues that the White counter-revolution failed in Siberia because of the political weakness of the anti-Soviet governments vying for power in the region and especially because of their policies toward the Siberian peasantry. He highlights similarities and differences among their constitutional programs and ideologies, paying particular attention to the Kolchak government as the chief anti-Bolshevik force in the region. Through his analysis of the conflict Pereira attempts to determine whether parliamentary democracy stood any real chance under the extraordinary circumstances or whether it was, as the Bolsheviks alleged, merely window-dressing hiding the real agenda of counter-revolution by military means and restoration of the ancien regime.
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"White Siberia is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research on the history of the civil war in Siberia and the role of that conflict in the Russian Revolution and Civil War. It will rank with the work of Peter Kenez on the Whites of South Russia." R.K. Debo, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.
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This is an outstanding piece of scholarship and very well written. It is required reading for anyone interested in the Russian Civil War. Dr. Pereira explains the intricacies of the political struggles that took place amongst the anti Bolshevik groups who took part in the Civil War in Siberia. This is a complex story, but it was the determinant factor in deciding the outcome to the Civil War. My only dissent is that Pereira is too uncritical of Kolchak and Co. If they had been less rightwing they might have held together a broad political spectrum of anti-Bolshevik fighters and won the Civil War. Pereira chooses to view Kolchak with understanding rather than critically analysis. Still this is the best book on the Russian Civil War in Siberia, which is where the Civil War was decided. It must be read by anyone interested in this subject.
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