Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

great book. but quite a lot of stories too follow, can sometimes be a bit hard to follow, with all of the Slavic names, but as an English speaker it is expected. fantastically in depth tho, great listen

This was a war that I didn't know much about, and I loved learning all the details. It really struck with me how small the initial armies and forces were, and how large the ones were later in the war. Early actions had outsized consequences. I loved finding out about the provisional government and how it changed from having very broad support to a government which was ripe for overthrow (from both the right and the left). The interaction of the civil war with WW1, and the demobilisation afterwards was interesting. A map with old place names would be helpful. I did find some of the place names difficult, and I've looked at huge numbers of maps of the world. Renamed cities were a real problem, as were cities with similar names. Yekaterinodar, Yekaterinburg & Ekaterinoslav sound similar as they were all named after Catherine the great - Katerina, and also the Soviets renamed them all. They are Krasnodar, Dnipro and Yekaterinburg today. Tsaritsyn/Stalingrad/Volograd and Petrograd/Leiningrad/St Petersburg too.