THE BARON’S CLOAK: A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN WAR AND REVOLUTION
Book ID/图书代码： 03360014B75300
English Summary/英文概要： Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire’s final decades through the arc of one man’s life. Baron Roman
Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War, established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia (part of a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires), and was captured and executed by the Red Army as the war drew to a close.
Sunderland visited the many sites that shaped Ungern’s experience, from Austria and Estonia to Mongolia and China, and these travels give the book its arresting geographical feel.
Willard Sunderland is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe, also from Cornell, and coeditor of volumes published by Indiana and Routledge.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Willard Sunderland以史诗般的笔触，通过一个人的一生，讲述了俄罗斯帝国的最后几十年。
罗曼•尼古拉•马克西米利安•冯•恩琴－史登伯格男爵（1885-1921）出生于德国东部的贵族之家，后成为沙皇手下一名军官。俄罗斯内战期间，他在东西伯利亚地区打击革命党，并逐渐成为外蒙古实际上的统治者。最终，在战争即将告终之时，他为人所获，被红军处决。
作者Sunderland曾走访奥地利、爱沙尼亚、蒙古、中国等地，追寻塑造了恩琴的经历，这些旅途所见丰富了本书。
Sunderland是美国辛辛那提大学历史副教授，曾发表Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe，与本书同由康奈尔大学出版社出版。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：此前虽也有人写过有关恩琴的故事，但Sunderland的着眼点并不在于撰写男爵的传记，而是通过他的一生以及他曾驻扎过的各个地点来描绘出包容了多个文化、更为错综复杂的俄罗斯帝国的暮年时光。本书的每个章节都以恩琴出生入死的地理所在作为中心展开，从奥地利的格拉兹，到爱托尼亚，再到中国的满洲里，Sunderland一路见证帝国的历史。因此，本书受到诸多高度评价，包括曾出版有关伊斯兰、俄罗斯帝国和中亚专著For Prophet and Tsar的斯坦福专家Robert Crews以及曾出版Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914-192的宾大专家Peter Holquist。
"In this creative, well-written, engaging account, Sunderland applies a microhistorical approach rather than a biographical one, using Ungern-Sternberg’s life and the places he lived to uniquely illustrate the multicultural, complicated nature of the Russian Empire in its twilight years. The author centers each chapter on the territorial and political locations where Ungern-Sternberg grew up, fought, and died—all places that changed drastically during his lifetime. This structure allows Sunderland to provide the history of imperial spaces ranging from Graz in the Hapsburg Empire to Estland (Estonia) in the Russian Empire to Manchuria in the Chinese. Although others have told Ungern’s story…Sunderland’s rendering is not just the sensational journey of one tormented man but also provides a distinctive history of empire in Eurasia. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." Choice, December 2014
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"The Baron’s Cloak is the best book I’ve read in a very long time. It is brilliantly conceived and crafted. Willard Sunderland’s research and erudition are unrivaled, and his writing is fast-paced, accessible, and often poetic. Sunderland does a terrific job of reimagining the Russian empire, territory, and power; this book will set the standard for a long time to come." --Robert Crews, Stanford University, author of For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
"Willard Sunderland’s The Baron’s Cloak is a wonderful and an important book. Beautifully written, with an abundance of photographs and maps, it tells one man’s life story as a prism as way to explore the Russian empire at its twilight. Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Sternberg was both a fascinating and appalling individual. (Imagine a character from a Dostoevsky novel transposed to the borderlands at the twilight of empire, in conditions war, revolution, ruin, and chaos.) Sunderland uses Ungern-Sternberg’s life to illustrate the far-flung empire that made the life possible. His book unfolds almost cinematically across Eurasia: Graz, Austria; the Baltic Provinces; St. Petersburg; Manchuria; the Russian Far East; the killing fields of the First World War in Prussia, Galicia, Persia; climaxing with Ungern-Sternberg’s doomed campaigns in Mongolia and Siberia. Sunderland is the first to understand Ungern-Sternberg as a type, an imperial cosmopolitan. His book is compelling reading not only for Russian and Soviet historians but also for any reader who seeks to understand the full scope of the Great War’s imperial apocalypse."--Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania, author of Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921
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