The Russian Intervention (1918-1920) | Wars you've never heard of

America really has been at war with Russia. Not in the Cold War sense, but a real shooting war with Allied troops invading the motherland. Don't believe it? Just watch and find out. This war changed everything for US-Soviet relations and is a very real corollary to the Cold War.

From 1918-1920, America, Britain, France, Japan, and others came together to intervene in the Russian Civil War. It was caused by the October Revolution and the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Despite having the ability to destroy fledgling communism, the allies failed in every regard, losing sight of their mission along the way. This is their story.

For those who know about the intervention and are wondering why I don't mention the Czech Legion: I was trying to keep this short. They were significant in the very beginning (though normally overstated), but by the time the Allies arrived in Siberia, they had the situation fairly well handled. So in other words, they are not entirely necessary to account for.
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The soldier quote:
Reed, Ernest and Gordon Smith. “Russian and Siberian Interventions.” New York Times: Current History 32, no 1 (Apr 1930): 59-69.

Both the other quotes I read:
Halliday, E.M. The Ignorant Armies. New York: Bantam, 1958. https://amzn.to/2OzcWuD
- also, if you can find it, this is by far the most fun book to read

The best academic work on the subject:
Kennan, George F. The Decision to Intervene: Soviet American Relations, 1917-1920, Volume II. Princeton, N.Jer.: Princeton University Press, 1956. https://amzn.to/2vGXzZO

The general historiography:
Alston, Charlotte. “British Journalism and the Campaign for Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20.” Revolutionary Russia 20, iss. 1 (May 2007): 35-49.

Carley, Michael. “The Origins of the French Intervention in the Russian Civil War, January-May 1918: A Reappraisal.” The Journal of Modern History 48, no. 3 (Sep 1976): 413-439.

Davis, Donald and Eugene Trany. The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. https://amzn.to/2OpXxwg

Dupey, Raymond and William Baumer, The Little Wars of the US: A Compact History from 1798 to 1920. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969. https://amzn.to/2MmmPOs

Foglesong, David. America’s Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War. Chapel Hill, N.Car.: Chapel Hill press, 1995. https://amzn.to/2vDE0ll

Kennan, George F. “Soviet Historiography and America's Role in the Intervention.” University of Chicago Press 64, no. 2 (1960): 302-22.

Kettle, Michael. The Road to Intervention: March-November 1918. London: Routlege, 1988. https://amzn.to/2MjgjZ0

Long, John. “Searching for Sidney Reilly: The Lockhart Plot in Revolutionary Russia, 1918.” Europe-Asia Studies 47, no. 7 (Nov 1995): 1225-1241.

Maddox, Robert James. “Woodrow Wilson, the Russian Embassy, and Siberian Intervention.” Pacific Historical Review 36, no. 4 (Nov 1967): 435-448.

Ruotsila, Markku. “The Churchill-Mannerheim Collaboration in the Russian Intervention, 1919-1920.” The Slavonic and East European Review 18, no. 1 (January 2002): 1-20.

Raymond Dupuy, Perish by the Sword: The Czechoslovakian anabasis and our supporting campaigns in North Russia and Siberia, 1918-1920 (PA: Military Service Publishing Co, 1939). https://amzn.to/2vD4Jyo

Sayers, Michael and Albert Kahn. The Great Conspiracy against Russia. New York: Boni & Gaer Inc, 1946. https://amzn.to/2BbxtDk

Strakhovsky, Leonid. The Origins of the Intervention in North Russia, 1918. Princeton, N.Jer.: Princeton University Press, 1937. https://amzn.to/2MkETbL
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The Allied intervention was a multi-national military expedition launched during the Russian Civil War in 1918. The initial goals were to help the Czechoslovak Legion, secure supplies of munitions and armaments in Russian ports, and re-establish the Eastern Front. After winning World War I, the Allies militarily backed the anti-Bolshevik White forces in Russia. Allied efforts were hampered by divided objectives, war-weariness after they just finished greater conflict, and a lack of domestic support. These factors, together with the evacuation of the Czechoslovak Legion, compelled the Allies to withdraw from North Russia and Siberia in 1920, though Japanese forces occupied parts of Siberia until 1922 and the northern half of Sakhalin until 1925.[3]
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