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When the United States Invaded Russia - Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster (Paperback)
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When the United States Invaded Russia - Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster (Paperback)
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In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President
Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to
Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson's original
intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild
the Eastern Front against the Central Powers. But Wilson continued
the intervention for a year and a half after the armistice in order
to overthrow the Bolsheviks and to prevent the Japanese from
absorbing eastern Siberia. As Wilson and the Allies failed to
formulate a successful Russian policy at the Paris Peace
Conference, American doughboys suffered great hardships on the
bleak plains of Siberia. Richard argues that Wilson's Siberian
intervention ironically strengthened the Bolshevik regime it was
intended to topple. Its tragic legacy can be found in the seeds of
World War II-which began with an alliance between Germany and the
Soviet Union, the two nations most aggrieved by Allied treatment
after World War I-and in the Cold War, a forty-five year period in
which the world held its collective breath over the possibility of
nuclear annihilation. One of the earliest U.S. counterinsurgency
campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere, the Siberian intervention
was a harbinger of policies to come. Richard notes that it teaches
invaluable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in
interventions and about the absolute need to secure widespread
support on the ground if such campaigns are to achieve success,
knowledge that U.S. policymakers tragically ignored in Vietnam and
have later struggled to implement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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