A Highly Disreputable Enterprise: Men-on-the-Spot and the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920
Journal: The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University)
Year: 2016

British and French foreign policy, unmoored by four years of war and foreign revolution, was chaotic and misguided during the Russian Civil War. In the absence (or sometimes in subversion) of guidance from governments at home, generals and bureaucrats embroiled far away in the total anarchy of the Russia took on the role of "men-on-the-spot" making decisions on the ground. These men-on-the-spot, influenced by their own implicit biases, turned a half-hearted campaign into a fully-fledged war on B