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When the United States Invaded Russia : Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster / Carl J. Richard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richard, Carl J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counterinsurgency--Soviet Union--History.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Soviet Union--History--Allied intervention, 1918-1920.
- Soviet Union.
- Siberia (Russia)--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
- Siberia (Russia).
- United States--Military relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- Soviet Union--Military relations--United States.
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
- Wilson, Woodrow.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This fascinating history explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolution. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that the intervention ironically enabled the survival of the emerging Soviet regime and influenced subsequent Soviet-American relations. The episode also teaches valuable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns and
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Map; Ch01. The War to End All Wars; Ch02. The Shadow of a Plan; Ch03. Walking on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite; Ch04. To Make the World Safe for Democracy; Ch05. In Search of a Russian Policy; Ch06. Hard Times, Come Again No More; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283834599
- 1283834596
- 9781442219908
- 1442219904
- OCLC:
- 821265743
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