E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten
*Probate* / Kettle Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-89001-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-134-89001-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This third volume in Michael Kettle's series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had succeeded in covering the formation of some anti-Bolshevik White groups sympathetic to allied aid.
Written on a panoramic basis which includes detailed documents from both sides, Kettle reveals what each side's leadership had to face as the Russian kaleidoscope constantly changed. Kettle argues that British intervention was doomed to failure and that the White Russians became expendable British pawns in a temporary forward holding position, designed to contain the Bolshevik inferno within Russia. The strategic and military miscalculations of British medium intervention thus prolonged the Russian civil war, and caused a further 14 million Russian deaths. Using Churchill's previously unpublished, last papers and recently available French documents, Kettle provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the `Archangel Fiasco'.
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1. London and Siberia: the coup d'état at Omsk 2. The Russian Theatres: Preparations for War 3. Peacemaking: the Prinkipo Proposal 4. War or Peace: Churchill's Proposal 5. Russian Policy: London, Washington, Paris and Odessa 6. The Russian Theatres: Churchill's Unanswered Letter 7. War and Peace: Kolchak's Advance and Bullitt's Mission 8. The French débâcle at Odessa 9. The House of Commons: Lloyd George Denies Bullitt 10. The War Office and Arcangel: No Second Odessa 11. The Golovin Plan: the Baltic Spring Offensive 12. Kolchak and the Allies: Quasi-recognition 13. South Russia: Denikin at Kharkov and Tsaritsin 14. The Baltic: the British Squadron and the Russian Northern Corps 15. North Russia: Kotlas and the Dvina River 16. The Kotlas Operation: Mutiny and Fiasco