Trailing the Bolsheviki

Trailing the BolshevikiA special correspondent of The New York Times, Carl W. Ackerman traveled from Vladivostok to Irkutsk to Omsk to Ekaterinburg in the fall of 1918 in the midst of the Russian Civil War. He met with officers of the American and Japanese expeditionary forces, with members of the Czecho Slovak corps fighting the Red Army, with ministers of the democratic Russian government in Omsk, and with military dictator Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who became the ruler

He uses his personal connection to investigate Johnson’s origin and rise to power

Considers the history of propaganda and how it has become increasingly pervasive due to access to ever-complex and versatile media

When the Karaites successfully dissociated themselves from the Rabbanite Russian Jews with the creation of the Karaite Religious Consistory in 1837

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despite the warnings of locals who beg him not to stay at such a place

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8 b&w illustrations

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In honor of her scholarship

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where he is to live out his life in peace and near-solitude

and published numerous papers