What a Decade! 1914–1924
Daniel Charney
Late 1930s
My Conversation with Kalinin
Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin, Makhno, and other titled and untitled rebels and bandits rampaged across the country. Jews were robbed and murdered left and right under the slogan Bey…
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