The Baron's Cloak : : A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution / / Willard Sunderland.
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 fantastic...
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Sunderland, Willard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Baron's Cloak : A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution / Willard Sunderland. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (368 p.) : 30 halftones, 9 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Graz -- 2. Estland -- 3. St. Petersburg, Manchuria, St. Petersburg -- 4. Beyond the Baikal -- 5. The Black Dragon River -- 6. Kobdo -- 7. War Land -- 8. The Ataman's Domain -- 9. Urga -- 10. Kiakhta -- 11. Red Siberia -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 borderlands, where the country bumped up against three other doomed empires, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Qing, and where the violence unleashed by war, revolution, and imperial collapse was particularly vicious. In compulsively readable prose that draws on wide-ranging research in multiple languages, Sunderland recreates Ungern's far-flung life and uses it to tell a compelling and original tale of imperial success and failure in a momentous time.Sunderland visited the many sites that shaped Ungern's experience, from Austria and Estonia to Mongolia and China, and these travels help give the book its arresting geographical feel. In the early chapters, where direct evidence of Ungern's activities is sparse, he evokes peoples and places as Ungern would have experienced them, carefully tracing the accumulation of influences that ultimately came together to propel the better documented, more notorious phase of his careerRecurring throughout Sunderland's magisterial account is a specific artifact: the Baron's cloak, an essential part of the cross-cultural uniform Ungern chose for himself by the time of his Mongolian campaign: an orangey-gold Mongolian kaftan embroidered in the Khalkha fashion yet outfitted with tsarist-style epaulettes on the shoulders. Like his cloak, Ungern was an imperial product. He lived across the Russian Empire, combined its contrasting cultures, fought its wars, and was molded by its greatest institutions and most volatile frontiers. By the time of his trial and execution mere months before the decree that created the USSR, he had become a profoundly contradictory figure, reflecting both the empire's potential as a multinational society and its ultimately irresolvable limitations. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Generals Russia Biography. Generals Soviet Union Biography. Europe. History. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. bisacsh baron roman fedorovich von ungern-sternberg, russian civil war, history of russian empire, why the russian empire fell apart in the late imperial and revolutionary periods. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801452703 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471070 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801471070 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801471070/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Graz -- 2. Estland -- 3. St. Petersburg, Manchuria, St. Petersburg -- 4. Beyond the Baikal -- 5. The Black Dragon River -- 6. Kobdo -- 7. War Land -- 8. The Ataman's Domain -- 9. Urga -- 10. Kiakhta -- 11. Red Siberia -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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