Erin ’s Reviews > Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 > Status Update

Anti-Semitic gangs tested if someone was Jewish by making them do the sign of the cross.

With only 3 or 4 hours of sunlight in North Russia, fighting was harsh with paralyzing cold and lack of food.

All non Bolshevik newspapers were banned.

They failed to see that the Romanovs once dead were far more useful to their enemies as martyrs.

Many European leaders believed that Bolshevism was a greater danger to Europe than German militarism.

Siberian Cossacks were reactionary and proud of it. They despised civilians and above all Jews.

Some 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese served in Bolshevik ranks during the Civil War, yet it could have been double that number.

Since the Chinese had suffered ill treatment and appalling conditions at the hands of the Tsarist military authorities, the Bolsheviks spotted an opportunity to recruit them.

When their company's fortunes turn uncertain, tech leaders panic. Being techies, they have a technical name for this panic: they call it pivoting.

"Neither war nor peace."