Dmitrii Fedotoff-White (1889–1950) was an
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from ...
officer from
Saint Petersburg
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. He fought for the
White forces during the
Russian Civil War
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and wrote a book about his experiences entitled ''"Survival - Through War and Revolution in Russia"'' (1939). He also fought for the
British
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and later escaped
Russia
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in 1921.
Writings
Books
* Survival Through War And Revolution In Russia. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania press. 1939.
* The Growth of the Red Army. Princeton University Press. 1944.
** Portuguese trans.: O exército vermelho. Rio de Janeiro. 1945.
Articles
* Soviet Philosophy of War. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Sep., 1936), pp. 321–353.
* The Russian Navy in Trieste. During the Wars of the Revolution and the Empire. American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 6, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1947), pp. 25–41
* An Aristocrat at Stalin's Court. American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Oct., 1950), pp. 207–217.
* A Russian Sketches Philadelphia, 1811–1813. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jan., 1951), pp. 3–24
External links
Columbia University collection of private papers of Fedotoff-White
1889 births
1950 deaths
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century American male writers
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