A nasty little war : the Western intervention into the Russian Civil War
"Overlapping with and overshadowed by the First World War, the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War was one of the most ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. Launched in the summer of 1918, it was born out of fear that Germany was filling the power vacuum left by the Bolshevik coup of the previous October. With Germany's surrender, the campaign morphed into an explicitly ideological drive against Bolshevism. Some 180,000 t...