M. Mysl'. 1983. 294 p. The history of the civil war in our country was and continues to be an object of ideological struggle and is especially often falsified by bourgeois Sovietologists. Analyzing the past, they develop their concept of counter-revolution, which has become the theoretical basis and methodological basis for the ideological sabotage of our days. Imperialist intervention then and psychological warfare now are phenomena of the same order, and their essence is anti-communism. Consequently, the study of the counter-revolutionary camp and the exposure of bourgeois falsifications of the history of the Great October Revolution and the Civil War is the concrete participation of Soviet scientists in the class struggle of our time, in the battles on the ideological front. In this regard, the book of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior researcher of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR G. Z. Ioffe cannot but attract attention. Until now, the situation inside the reactionary camp during the Civil War has been rarely studied, and the history of the collapse of the White generals ' campaigns has not yet been written. The study of the collapse of Kolchakism is the first work to fill this gap in the study of forces hostile to the revolution .1 The author considers Kolchakism "not as a local, Siberian phenomenon, but as the most important part of the All-Russian counter-revolution" (p. 5). It is well known that V. I. Lenin was extremely attentive to the situation inside Kolchakia2 . According to Lenin's concept, Kolchakism was defeated in a two-pronged process: the maximum tension of the revolutionary forces directed against Kolchak ("now the whole fate of the revolution is on one card", the essence of the time being experienced is expressed by the slogan "death or victory" 3), and the internal disintegration, "decomposition" of the counter-revolutionary camp 4 . The main direction of G. Z. Ioffe's research is the inner histo ... Read more