1920–21
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2016

Abstract This chapter analyses the Red Army's many operations around the periphery of the former Russian Empire — notably its conquering of the putatively independent republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in 1920–21 — as the White armies disintegrated. These Red victories in Transcaucasia, it is noted, induced an element of Realpolitik into Soviet foreign policy in Moscow's dealings with Persia and the Kemalist regime in the former Ottoman Empire, but also fomented hopes of an anti-imperi