Personal testimonies humanise the Stalingrad author’s mesmerising study of the bloody battle for power after the collapse of the tsarist regime
, which, as their titles suggest, focused on a single location and two clearly defined sets of combatants. The dimensions of his undertaking withThe violence we’ve witnessed on television of late has a long and depressing history in the region
“Tragically for both countries,” Beevor writes of Germany’s incursion, “it gave German nationalists the idea that European Russia and Ukraine should become their colonial possessions in the next war.” The idea, of course, that Ukraine was a colonial possession of Russia was already established and, as we know, has not gone away.
The diffusion of opponents played into the Bolsheviks’ hands, as their differences were so extreme that a unified opposition fighting force was never a viable option. But if the battle lines were often blurred, the hatred felt by the combatants for each other was nightmarishly vivid.The violence committed by all sides was unconfined, with torture and executions widespread, and it was not uncommon for people to be thrown alive into blast furnaces.
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