Chronicle of white terror in Russia. Repression and lynching (1917-1920)

By poetizing and idealizing the white movement, many researchers significantly reduce the number of victims in the territory of anti -Bolshevik Russia and question the existence of the legislative foundations of this terror. The available data on mass executions they reduce to the mental practice of individual representatives of the military authorities and the consequences of the front -line terror.
Historian I. S. Ratkovsky, associate professor of the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University, based on documentary sources (orders, orders, telegrams), indicates the direct liability of the leaders of the White movement for them not only in the frontline zone, but also deep in the rear. Ataman reprisals in Siberia quite coexisted with the punitive practice of generals S. N. Rozanov, P.P. Ivanov-Rinov, V. I. Volkov, who was conducted with the knowledge of Admiral A.V. Kolchak