Stillborn Crusade: The Tragic Failure of Western Intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918–1920 - Tapa dura

-Somin's cogently argued polemic asserts that the Allied failure to intervene decisively against Bolshevism in 1918-19 doomed Russia and the world to at least 50,000,000 needless deaths... [W]ell written, absorbing, and provocative. All levels.- --D. MacKenzie, Choice -A thoughtful and impressive piece of work. . . . [T]hought stretching and bravely takes a position that generations of Sovietologists have ignored.- --Canadian Slavonic Papers -Stillborn Crusade is a highly original and thought-provoking interpretation of the failed Western intervention in the Russian Civil War. . . . It is a study that is also relevant to the current disputes about the morality of American intervention in various parts of the world.- --Paul Hollander, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Somin's cogently argued polemic asserts that the Allied failure to intervene decisively against Bolshevism in 1918-19 doomed Russia and the world to at least 50,000,000 needless deaths... [W]ell written, absorbing, and provocative. All levels." --D. MacKenzie, Choice "A thoughtful and impressive piece of work. . . . [T]hought stretching and bravely takes a position that generations of Sovietologists have ignored." --Canadian Slavonic Papers "Stillborn Crusade is a highly original and thought-provoking interpretation of the failed Western intervention in the Russian Civil War. . . . It is a study that is also relevant to the current disputes about the morality of American intervention in various parts of the world." --Paul Hollander, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Somin's cogently argued polemic asserts that the Allied failure to intervene decisively against Bolshevism in 1918-19 doomed Russia and the world to at least 50,000,000 needless deaths... [W]ell written, absorbing, and provocative. All levels." --D. MacKenzie, Choice "A thoughtful and impressive piece of work. . . . [T]hought stretching and bravely takes a position that generations of Sovietologists have ignored." --Canadian Slavonic Papers "Stillborn Crusade is a highly original and thought-provoking interpretation of the failed Western intervention in the Russian Civil War. . . . It is a study that is also relevant to the current disputes about the morality of American intervention in various parts of the world." --Paul Hollander, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Somin's cogently argued polemic asserts that the Allied failure to intervene decisively against Bolshevism in 1918-19 doomed Russia and the world to at least 50,000,000 needless deaths... [W]ell written, absorbing, and provocative. All levels." --D. MacKenzie, Choice