When the United States invaded Russia
Subtitle: Woodrow Wilson's Siberian disaster
By: Carl J. Richard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781442219892; 9781442219908
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces; Military relations; United States; Foreign relations; History
Description: One of the earliest U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere, the Siberian intervention was a harbinger of policies to come. At the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia, and 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. Its tragic legacy can be found in the seeds of World War II, and in the Cold War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: The War to End All Wars; title: The Shadow of a Plan; title: Walking on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite; title: To Make the World Safe for Democracy; title: In Search of a Russian Policy; title: Hard Times, Come Again No More.