Khronika belogo terrora v Rossii. Repressii i samosudy - Rat'kovskii Il'ia Sergeevich

By poetizing and idealizing the White Movement, many researchers have markedly downplayed the number of victims in the territory of anti-Bolshevik Russia and questionthe existence of the legislative foundations of this terror. The available data on mass shootings reduce them to the arbitrary practice of individual military authorities and the consequences of "front-line" terror. Historian I.S. Ratkovsky, relying on documentary sources (orders, orders, telegrams), points to the direct responsibility of the leaders of the white movement for them not only in the frontline zone, but also deep in the rear. Ataman massacres in Siberia were quite combined with the punitive practice of generals S.N. Rozanov, P.P. Ivanov-Rinov, V.I. Volkov, which was carried out with the knowledge of Admiral A.V. Kolchak.