Last White Army: Pepelyayev's Ice Expedition and the Final Campaign of the Russian Civil War

In the winter of 1922, a White Russian general named Anatoly Pepelyayev led seven hundred volunteer soldiers from Vladivostok into the subarctic interior of Yakutia — the last armed expedition against Soviet authority on Russian soil. His target was a province in revolt. The Sakha people, driven to rebellion by the brutal grain requisitions of War Communism, had appealed to the remnants of the Whi...