Word: kolchak
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...that culminated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 1918, and he describes briefly the reorganization of Russia under the Soviet regime. He then outlines the various attempts at counter revolution and foreign intervention such as the Archangel expedition, the struggles in Siberia of the Czecho-Slovaks, Kolchak, and Semenov, and the intervention of Japanese and American troops, as well as the attacks of Denikine, Wranged, and Yudenitch. Throughout he emphasizes the policy towards Soviet Russia of the Allied and Associated Powers and particularly stresses their relations to the anti-Soviet operations mentioned above. Indeed he often seems more...
According to a book written by General Dietrix who, on orders from Admiral Kolchak, made an investigation of the circumstances of the murders of the Tzar and his family, the heads of the Imperial Royal Family were cut off, preserved in alcohol and delivered to the Tcheka...
...precarious position in America, their liabilities were enforceable, but their assets were not collectible here. The result was immediately apparent. An attachment was levied on property of the Russian government; another on that of a Mexican consulate-general. Judgment was entered in a suit against the now defunct Kolchak government. The rulings of the Court of Appeals have resolved this confusion, and property in New York State belonging to, or claimed by, de facto governments will not change hands...
...defeat is tragic not only in itself, but also in that it gives another respite to the rule of Lenine at the expense of the Russian people. It shows, too, the futility of the policy of isolated attacks and unsupported campaigns; in the attempts of Kolchak, Yudenitch, and Denikine, lack of co-ordination was the cause of failure. Even Allied aid has been given on no more than one front at a time, and then but timidly...
Where now was the adventurous Prince Yudenitch, the charmingly cryptic Prince Kolchak, the mystically vague Prince Denekine? Where was the Prince of Poland? Where the Prince of Ukraine? Where were the Princes of the Esths and the Letts, of whose existence she had never known until she had been warned that they were riding to rescue her? They were all gone, frightened away by the evil monster, Bolshevism...