Foreign relations under Lenin: Foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War and the Russo-Polish War

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  • Created by: gemshort
  • Created on: 20-04-18 17:08

Foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War

  • Who? Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Japan, Finland, Lithuania, Romania and the USA
  • Where? Murmansk, Siberia, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Vladivostok
  • When? French and US troops left at the end of 1919; by the end of 1920, only Japan was left
  • Why? Initially, Allied troops went to Russia to reopen the Eastern Front against Germany, however, they stayed on beyond the end of WII because: they resented Russian withdrawal from the war; they feared Bolshevism

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