ENGL 583 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, American Relief Administration, Alexander Kolchak

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 583
• Professor: David Dolff

Document Summary

Civil war 1919-1921 multi-party war in the former russian empire immediately after the russian. Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine russia"s political future. Eight foreign nations intervened against the red army. The russian civil war was the greatest national catastrophe that europe had yet seen. The red army defeated the white armed forces of south russia in ukraine and the army led by adm. aleksandr kolchak in siberia in 1919. White forces commanded by pyotr nikolayevich wrangel were beaten in crimea and evacuated in late. A little bit of direct fighting between the us and reds. There are 11 countries that send troops to russia during the civil war. It is far too few troops to make a difference, the reds won the civil war. Situation of poland at the end of the civil war : after the great war, poland is reconstituted as an independent country.