Title: Episodic; a few interesting things.
Product review: Despite the title, this book, published in 1962, is not a history of the Russian Civil War. Rather, it is an account of six important episodes during the Civil War. It has little interest for readers today, except for the section on Makhno's uprising, army and government in the Eastern Ukraine, which Footman describes in some detail, even including photographs. Footman's discussion is the only one I've seen that makes it understandable how Makhno could start from nothing, raise an 80,000-man army, fend off the various Ukrainian armies, Denikin's White Russian Army, and the Red Army for years. An illuminating historical episode involving a brilliant and ruthless guerrilla leader.As for the rest of the book, read something better.
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