Word: kolchak
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Meanwhile his flair for finding out what was going on led him to the conclusion that the Kolchak regime, which the western Allies were then supporting, had no backing from the Russian people. Largely because of his finding, the Graves force was limited to guarding the railway, avoided a political blunder. A grateful War Department pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Eichelberger's high-collared blouse...
...Omsk Josip Broz saw the mass execution of 1,600 striking railroad workers by Tsarist Admiral Kolchak. When the Red Army reached Omsk, Josip Broz joined up. The young Croat who didn't want to fight for the Habsburgs fought through the hard, bitter years of Russia's civil wars...
...Stalin was on his way from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced last week...
...Asian Odyssey is the grim memoir of a White Russian artillery officer, who served under General Kolchak and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Mongolia. While many a book has been written about the Russian Red and White armies, and at least two biographies about the fantastically sadistic Ungern-Sternberg, none has more simply or vividly described the incredible hardships and cruelties of a fight which will long rank with the more shuddering chapters of Russian history...
...Siberia in 1918 wiry little Paul Reynaud was a tough French liaison officer with the White Russian Army of Kolchak, got to know Bolsheviks first hand. His dynamism kindled Mme Reynaud, homey daughter of a president of the Paris Bar Association, to step out and become an aviatrix. As for his own exercise, the new Premier is the kind of man who makes everything strenuous, even bicycling-his favorite sport. He once participated in a long-distance road race...