The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

"Other history books out since January draw attention to aspects of history that get left out of mainstream narratives. In The Last Peasant War , Jakub Beneš, a historian at UCL, focuses on the peasant revolution that swept across eastern Europe from 1917 to 1921. These rural uprisings stretched from the Alps to the Urals, changing the course of the Russian revolution and contributing to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. A big part of the story is deserters from the army who had learned how to fight in World War I and took to the woods to fight. This a serious academic work about that fills a big gap, certainly in my knowledge of what happened between World War I and II."