Foreign intervention in the 1918-1920 Russian Civil War

Foreign Intervention

Allied Intervention

• Consisted of a series of multi-national militrary expeditions in 1918 that stated that their goals were to help the Czechoslocak legion to secure supplies of armaments to Russian Ports and to re-establish the Eastern Front. In addition to this they intended to overthrow the new Bolshevik Regime.
• After the Bolsheviks signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the allied powers openly back the White Army's anti-communist fight against the Bolsheviks. 
• However, the allied war efforts were hampered by a general war-weariness from the overall global conflict and a lack of domestic support. These factors along with the evacuation of the Czechoslovak legion led to the Allied powers withdrawing from North Russia and Siberia in 1920, though the Japanese forces occupied parts of Siberia until 1922 and the nothern half of Sakhalin until 1925. 
• The failure of the Allied intervention cost them a fortune in blood and treasures which further exhausted the Allies - they could not afford anymore expenditure after WWI and this also left a legacy of a bad feeling between Russia and the West that still persists today. 
• Russians feared that foreign intervention meant that Russian independence would be brought to an end if there was a White victory and this was pushed by Bolshevik…