Rostov-on-Don. Rostov Book Publishing House. 1984. 176 p. Of all the regions that were hit by internal counter-revolution and intervened in the post-October period, the south of Russia is perhaps the most fully covered in the literature, and historians do not owe too much to the topic of the struggle against the Kaledin, Krasnovsky and Denikin White Guards, which in the summer of 1919 turned into a threat to the Soviet Republic. 1 One of the authors of the book under review, K. A. Khmelevsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of History of the CPSU at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after M. Torez, also made a significant contribution to this literature .2 And here the question may arise: what is the place of the new work of K. A. Khmelevsky, made in collaboration with the Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior lecturer of the Department of History of the CPSU of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, S. K. Khmelevsky, in the rather extensive historiography of the civil war in the South and, more specifically, on the Don? The book's subtitle notes that it belongs to the genre of historical essays. However, the authors did not confine themselves to a popular presentation of the material already obtained by historical science, but carried out some research work. The book's source base consists of various and extensive archival and literary materials. The authors consider the "Sovietological" works from a critical point of view. The conjectures and distortions contained in them are refuted in the course of presenting specific historical material, which increases the reasonableness of the position of the authors of the reviewed book. This, like many other things, takes it beyond the genre of historical essay. Until relatively recently, specialists in the history of the civil war and intervention studied mainly the camp of the revolution. But "there can be no revolution without counter-revolution." 3 Based on this Leninist p ... Читать далее