General Mikhail V. Alekseev and his Strategy for the Struggle Against Bolshevism in the Coverage of Popular Scientific Biographies of 1990-2010s

Abstract

For the first time in Russian historiography the article analyzes the popular scientific biographical works about General M.V. Alekseev, which were published in Russia in the 1990s-2010s. The article discusses the biographical study of General M.V. Alekseev participation in the Volunteer Army formation and creation of the anti-Bolshevik statehood in the South of Russia in a period from November 1917 to September 1918. The article pays main attention to General M.V. Alekseev views on the struggle against the Bolshevik power strategy. The article considers a study of economic, political and military aspects of General M.V. Alekseev’s strategic views and plans by Russian historians. There is a comparative analysis of nowaday approaches to studying his look upon the sruggle against Bolshevik power. For comparative analysis the author of the article chose historians S.V. Karpenko’s and V.J. Tsvetkov’s popular scientific works, because in those works General M.V. Alekseev’s participation in the White movement in South Russia is examined in details best of all. As a result of the study it was concluded that S.V. Karpenko gave priority to economic aspects of M.V. Alekseev’s strategic plans, whereas V.Zh. Tsvetkov, on the contrary, pays primary attention to the political aspects of M.V. Alekseev’s strategy.