What Antony Beevor gets wrong about Russia
The historian’s new book Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 fails to understand that brutality is powered by ideas.
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Daniel Beer
Daniel Beer is a historian at Royal Holloway, University of London and the author of The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars (2016, Allen Lane).
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