This small book is a "critical" presentation of the book by journalist G. Rakovsky "Civil War in Southern Russia. In the camp of whites (From Orel to Novorossiysk." Constantinople, 1921.V. Bystryansky stops mainly in those places where the troubles and discord in the camp of the white movement are described. Without going into the analysis of the reasons that gave rise to them, the author of the present work emphasizes the cohesion of the red camp as opposed to the white, which explains the final victory of the first.