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Article: Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920: The Key to Victory.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 22, 2006
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Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920: The Key to Victory, by Brian Murphy. Cass Military Studies. London, Routledge, 2005. xiii, 196 pp. $65.00 US (cloth).
From 1917 to 1920 Rostov-on-Don, a quiet provincial city in southern Russia, unexpectedly turned into a violent battlefield. A centre of the Don Cossack host and port on the river Don, it changed hands no less than six times and witnessed waves of White and Red terror, food shortages, and destruction. In his documentary volume on Rostov during those turbulent years, Brian Murphy assembles numerous memoirs, many of them published for the first time. The seven chapters of the book dramatically document the ...