A Bright New World

By summer of 1918, Soviet Russia managed to avoid the Civil War and, for the most part, suppress manifestations of separatism at the fringes. But to fight in defense of the gains of October and for the territorial integrity of the first state of workers and peasants, elite units of the Red Guards will have a lot—and it will be bloody.

After reading (listening to) this book, you’ll learn how the New World was born. You’ll find out how Japan’s militarists’ attempts on Soviet Siberia and the Far East ended; what happened to the White Chinese militarists who tried to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway; as well as how the battles on the Western Front ended in an unexpected way—and how Nestor Makhno turned out to be a hero of the Mexican Revolution.