Baron's Cloak A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution

Name: Baron's Cloak A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution
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ISBN: 9780801452703

ISBN-10: 0801452708

ISBN-13: 9780801452703

Edition: 2014

Authors: Willard Sunderland

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Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia, the base for a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires, which then ended with his capture and execution by the Red Army as the war drew to a close.In The Baron's Cloak, Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire's final decades through the arc of the Baron's life, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia. Tracking Ungern's movements, he transits through the Empire's multinational…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/8/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity and editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (IUP, 2008) and (with Zara Torlone) of Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (IUP, 2008).Willard Sunderland is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and author of Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe.