Winston Churchill called it 'the unknown war'. Unlike the long
stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914-18 between the
Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement
spanning a continent - from the Arctic to the Adriatic, Black and
Caspian seas and from the Baltic in the west to the Pacific Ocean.
The appalling scale of casualties provoked strikes in Russia's war
industries and widespread mutinies at the front. As the whole
fabric of society collapsed, German money brought the Bolsheviks to
power in the greatest deniable dirty trick of the twentieth
century, after which Russia stopped fighting, eight months before
the Western Front armistice. The cost to Russia was 4 million men
dead and as many held as POWs by the Central Powers. Wounded? No
one has any idea how many. All the belligerent powers of the
Russian fronts were destroyed: the German, Austro-Hungarian and
Russian empires gone forever and the Ottoman Empire so crippled
that it finally collapsed in 1922. During four years of brutal
civil war that followed, Trotsky's Red Army fought the White
armies, murdering and massacring millions of civilians, as British,
American and other western soldiers of the interventionist forces
fought and died from the frozen Arctic to the arid deserts of Iran.
This is the story of that other First World War.
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