Churchill's secret war with Lenin : British and commonwealth military intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20
2017
Book
In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers and brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas and his children so there could be no return to the old order. As Russiafractured into loyalist 'White' and revolutionary 'Red' factions, the British government became increasingly drawn into the escalating Russian Civil War after hundreds of thousands of German troops transferred from the Eastern Front to France were used in the 1918 'Spring Offensive' which threatened Paris. What began with the landing of a small number of Royal Marines at Murmanskin March 1918 to protect Allied-donated war stores quickly escalated with the British government actively pursuing an undeclared war against the Bolsheviks on a number of fronts in support of British trained and equipped 'White Russian' Allies.
Imprint:
Solihull, West Midlands : Helion & Company Limited, 2017.
Collation:
504 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white)
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781911512103 (hbk)
Dewey class:
947.0841
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2511961