The Anatomy of Intervention, or Who and How Unleashed the Civil War in Northern Russia
The Anatomy of Intervention, or Who and How Unleashed the Civil War in Northern Russia
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This book offers a detailed and comprehensive examination of the complex and contradictory picture of the clash of interests and actions between various countries and military-political coalitions in northern Russia in the spring and summer of 1918: Great Britain, Germany, Finland, the Entente, and the Quadruple Alliance. It reveals the Brest and Murmansk alternatives to Soviet foreign policy and the struggles of various internal and external actors in and around the Murmansk region to realize their interests. It examines the Soviet government's efforts to balance each other and prevent a clash between the opposing imperialist coalitions in the north.
It analyzes the impact of the Finnish Civil War on the situation in the Russian North, the contribution of German troops to the White Finns' victory in the war, and their actions to create, with German assistance, a "Greater Finland from sea to sea" by seizing Russian territory. The commonalities and divergences of their interests are revealed.
The aims and motives, nature, and mechanisms of the Entente countries' struggle to strengthen their military and political presence in the Russian North are examined, as well as the development and implementation of intervention plans "at the invitation of the Soviet government" and without it. The Murmansk stage of the so-called "friendly" intervention, culminating in a coup in Murmansk, a break with the Council of People's Commissars, the creation of the Murmansk Anti-Soviet Front by Entente forces, and the occupation of the region, is examined.
The military, political, and diplomatic aspects of the preparation and implementation of the armed invasion of Arkhangelsk by Entente forces are revealed, which signaled the outbreak of a large-scale civil war in Northern Russia and the creation of a Northern Front by foreign forces. It is demonstrated that the intervention of the Entente countries, aimed at realizing a complex set of military-strategic, political, geopolitical, and economic interests, played a major role in the outbreak of the Civil War in this region of Russia.
It analyzes the impact of the Finnish Civil War on the situation in the Russian North, the contribution of German troops to the White Finns' victory in the war, and their actions to create, with German assistance, a "Greater Finland from sea to sea" by seizing Russian territory. The commonalities and divergences of their interests are revealed.
The aims and motives, nature, and mechanisms of the Entente countries' struggle to strengthen their military and political presence in the Russian North are examined, as well as the development and implementation of intervention plans "at the invitation of the Soviet government" and without it. The Murmansk stage of the so-called "friendly" intervention, culminating in a coup in Murmansk, a break with the Council of People's Commissars, the creation of the Murmansk Anti-Soviet Front by Entente forces, and the occupation of the region, is examined.
The military, political, and diplomatic aspects of the preparation and implementation of the armed invasion of Arkhangelsk by Entente forces are revealed, which signaled the outbreak of a large-scale civil war in Northern Russia and the creation of a Northern Front by foreign forces. It is demonstrated that the intervention of the Entente countries, aimed at realizing a complex set of military-strategic, political, geopolitical, and economic interests, played a major role in the outbreak of the Civil War in this region of Russia.
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