Red and white. Budnitsky O.V.

The Civil War ended a hundred years ago, but the passions on it do not subside and are unlikely to subside in the foreseeable future. Comprehending the social disaster that befell them, each of the warring camps gave rise to his own historical narrative and his own galaxy of the heroes. Today, almost all of them -both white and red -were valid by the romantic halo: both warring parties demonstrated rare cruelty in this conflict. The book of Oleg Budnitsky is devoted to the heroes of the Civil War on both sides: it consists of biographical essays about the leaders of the red and white, collective portraits of the most famous military formations of those and others, of the "instant photographs" of the Red Army in 1918 and the "White Crimea" in the fall of 1920- th, when the Russian Vandeus lived the last days.

superficial views and demonization/romanticization of these historical personalities, the author contrasts the analysis of the motives and logic of the actions of key historical figures, an attempt to see living people who are forced to make a difficult political and moral choice as well as reap the fruits of their actions and crimes.

Oleg Budnitsky - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of Soviet and Post -Soviet History of the Higher Superior, Author of numerous studies on the history of the 20th century.