The search for historical continuity in the assessment of the civil war in Russia = Поиск исторической преемственности в оценках гражданской войны в России

Abstract

This work presents the views of Elena Iur’evna Prokofieva regarding several key aspects of the Civil War, including the transformation of the term “civil war” in the context of the traumatic developments of 1917–1922 (there are also other variants to this chronology), the reasons why the “third force” became insolvent over the course of this acute civil conflict, and the conflict’s periodization