THE BLOODY WHITE BARON: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN WHO BECAME THE LAST KHAN OF MONGOLIA

Book ID/图书代码： 00200008B27809

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在世界近代史中，没有谁能比Baron Ungern-Sternberg更残酷，更邪恶，更疯狂了。他是一个疯狂的反犹太者，喜欢东方的神秘主义，憎恨共产党。1920年，Baron Ungern-Sternberg在白俄罗斯，西伯利亚，日本以及本土居民所组成的下层军队的帮助下，接管了蒙古国。当他被朋友和敌人所困扰时，他梦想着有一天可以拥有一支骑兵军队，重新占领共产党所控制的莫斯科。
在这本史诗性的传奇中，范围从奥地利到蒙古草原，历史学家兼旅游作者詹姆斯·帕尔默将一个狂人惊心动魄的一生展示给世人。(ZH)

Awards/获奖情况：Starred Review. Ancient and modern savageries unite in the colorful antihero of this scintillating historical study. Baron Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921) was a czarist officer who became a leader of anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia during the Russian civil war. He was a staunch monarchist and anti-Semite, whose sadism heightened the brutality of an already vicious conflict. He was pushed by the Red Army into Mongolia, where his reactionary impulses, accentuated by an attraction to esoteric Eastern religions, grew downright medieval. Hailed as a reincarnated god by locals who perhaps mistook him for a prophesied Buddhist messiah, Ungern-Sternberg dreamed of leading an Asian empire against the decadent West and instituted a fleeting dictatorship under which resisters were flogged to death, torn apart or burned alive. Journalist Palmer pens a vivid and slightly wry profile of this larger-than-life figure who rode into battle bare-chested and necklaced with bones, and lucidly dissects Ungern-Sternberg’s protofascist worldview, with its motifs of racism, feudal hierarchy, regenerative bloodshed and mystic communion with primitive virility. The result is a fascinating portrait of an appalling man—and of the zeitgeist that shaped him. Maps. (Feb.) ---From Publishers Weekly

James Palmer’s “Bloody White Baron,” his life of Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, is the story of “a loser — albeit an upper-class one”---who turned himself into a visionary psychopath in the Russian far east. Uncomfortable but fascinating reading, it weaves together the weird alliances, murderous dreams and improbable careers that emerged in the aftermath of World War I and the fall of czarist Russia.

About the Author/作者介绍： 詹姆斯·帕尔默曾在亚洲中东部旅行，2003年他获得The Spectator’s Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize，他曾经在中国与佛教和道教工作者一起工作，并因环境问题而造访过蒙古，作者现居北京。

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