America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920

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William Sidney Graves. America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920

America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

I. PURPOSE OF MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA

II. AID TO THE CZECHS

III. BEFORE THE ARMISTICE

IV “AFTER THE ARMISTICE”

V. MOBILIZATION OF RUSSIAN TROOPS

VI. THE RAILROAD AGREEMENT

VII “KOLCHAK AND RECOGNITION”

VIII. JAPAN, THE COSSACKS AND ANTI-AMERICANISM

IX. THE GAIDA REVOLUTION

X. THE DEBACLE

INDEX

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William Sidney Graves

Published by Good Press, 2021

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General Alfred Knox, British Army, undoubtedly had much influence in shaping the British policy in Russia. He had served as Military Attaché in Petrograd during the Czarist regime; he spoke Russian, and was personally known to many of the former Czarist officials; he was naturally autocratic and could not, if he had desired to do so, give sympathetic consideration to the aspirations of the peasant class in Russia, whom he characterized as swine.

The Czarist Russian Army and Navy officers were naturally very antagonistic to the Soviets and were favourable to any proposition that gave promise of keeping them in their old positions.

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