When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster

by Carl J. Richard

Book Overview

In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson's original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild the Eastern Front against the Central Powers. But Wilson continued the intervention for a year and a half after the armistice in order to overthrow the Bolsheviks and to prevent the Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810896397
• ISBN13: 9780810896390
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"