Download or read book Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War written by Diane Koenker and published by Indiana-Michigan Russian and E. This book was released on 1989 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1921 (after four years of civil war), the Red Armies and the Soviet system emerged victorious, but the social and political consequences of this victory, the implications of the experience of the war years themselves, remain an unresolved historical issue. Among the questions confronted in these papers: To what extent were responses and political choices of the Civil War years the product of social and economic circumstances, to what extent the exercise of conscious political will? Why was there a progressive erosion of democratic practices and forms in the soviets, in the central government, in trade unions, and in the factories themselves in the post-October period? Paper edition (unseen), $12.50. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR