History Today, January 1st, 1993
Russia is in turmoil, a huge empire sundered, a once mighty military machine on the verge of dissolution, with hunger abroad, privation all too common and politics presenting a disordered spectacle of sectarian squabble, |democrats' behaving undemocratically, ethnic rivalries and nationalist passions threatening the onset of civil war. Yet none of this is new. This |crisis in Russia' of the 90s has its parallel in |the crisis in Russia of the 1920s', preceded by revolution and burgeoning civil war. Both are reported in riveting detail by none other than Arthur Ransome, long famous as the aut...
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