The allied intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 : the diplomacy of chaos / Ian C.D. Moffat, Independent Scholar, Canada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moffat, Ian C. D., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--History--Allied intervention, 1918-1920.

Soviet Union.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

Chaos has many names: anarchy, pandemonium, turmoil or utter confusion, and there are few better examples than the events concerning Russia during the Great War and the debacle of the Allied attempts at intervention there. This chaos was self-inflicted by the Allies themselves. The Allied strategic objectives in Russia changed over the course of three distinct time periods. From the first Russian Revolution in March 1917 to the November Botshevik Revolution, the Allies sought to keep Russia in the war as an active ally. From November 1917 to the November 1918 Armistice, they tried to prevent the Bolsheviks from making a separate peace and, failing that, to re-establish an Eastern Front. Finally from the Armistice to the fall of the Whites in Crimea in 1920, the Allies tried to strangle Bolshevism. Throughout, Britain remained the driving force, despite Lloyd George's antipathy towards military action and President Woodrow Wilson's efforts to minimize intervention. Book jacket.

Contents:

Year of crisis: 1917

Stalled intervention: north, south, east and west

American-Japanese rivalry in Siberia

The allies act: Murmansk and Archangel

Too few, too late: the Caucasus, the north and Siberia: Summer 1918

Disaster for the misunderstood: anti-Bolshevik support in north Russia: August to November 1918

Friends or enemies together: allies in Siberia : Summer 1918

Dying in Russia while others debate: October 1918 to January 1919

Vision versus reality: the Paris Peace Conference and Russia: January to February 1919

Retreat, abandonment and Bolshevik victory: February to April 1919

Allied evacuation and White victories: March to June 1919

Allied retreat and White defeat: May to October 1919

Red triumph and White humiliation: July 1919 to November 1920.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and index.

ISBN:

1137435712

OCLC:

891125945

Publisher Number:

99962494424