Dr Peter Whitewood

• Lecturer: History
• School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

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Whitewood, Peter (2023) The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism. Bloomsbury Academic

Whitewood, Peter (2023) Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine. The Conversation.

Whitewood, Peter (2023) Failing to Create Revolutionaries: Polish POWs in Soviet Captivity, 1920-21. Revolutionary Russia, 35 (2). pp. 185-205.

Palko, Olena and Whitewood, Peter (2023) Revisiting the Polish Vector in Soviet History and Politics. Revolutionary Russia. pp. 1-8.

Whitewood, Peter (2020) 'Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army and Misperception of Security Threats'. In: Ryan, James and Grant, Susan, (eds.) Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions and Controversies. Bloomsbury Academic

Douds, Lara, Harris, James and Whitewood, Peter, eds. (2020) The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution : Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41. Library of Modern Russia . Bloomsbury

Douds, Lara, Harris, James and Whitewood, Peter, eds. (2020) The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-1941. Library of Modern Russia . Bloomsbury Academic

Whitewood, Peter (2020) The International Situation: Fear of Invasion and Growing Authoritarianism. In: Douds, Lara, Harris, James and Whitewood, Peter, (eds.) The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-1941. Library of Modern Russia . London, Bloomsbury, pp. 173-186

Whitewood, Peter (2019) In the Shadow of the War: Bolshevik Perceptions of Polish Subversive and Military Threats to the Soviet Union, 1920-32. Journal of Strategic Studies. p. 1.

Whitewood, Peter (2019) Czystka Stalina w Armii Czerwonej Początki wielkiego terroru. Editio

Whitewood, Peter (2016) Nationalities in a Class War: ‘Foreign’ Soldiers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Journal of Modern European History, 14 (3). pp. 342-358.

Whitewood, Peter (2015) The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military. Modern war studies . Lawrence, University Press of Kansas

Whitewood, Peter (2015) The Purge of the Red Army and the Soviet Mass Operations 1937-1938. Slavonic and East European Review, 93 (2). pp. 286-314.

Whitewood, Peter (2015) Subversion in the Red Army and the Military Purge of 1937–1938. Europe-Asia Studies, 67 (1). pp. 102-122.

Whitewood, Peter (2011) Towards a New History of the Purge of the Military, 1937-1938. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 24 (4). pp. 605-620.