Word: litovsk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central theme of the work is the reaction of the British government to the November Revolution of 1917 which brought the Bolsheviks to control of central Russia. During that winter the British attempted to revitalize the Russian war effort. Following the treaty of Brest-Litovsk they resorted to direct military intervention in order to reestablish an Eastern Front which they thought absolutely necessary for victory. As Ullman points out, these attempts were based on an assumption and a hope...
...contradictions, misinformation and blunders with which Britain and her allies approached this crucial period in Russian history. British policy was based on fundamental misconceptions from start to finish. Most blatant was the assumption that the Bolsheviks would profit from a renewed war effort: the resting period provided by Brest-Litovsk was vital to the consolidation of the Soviet regime and Lenin and Trotsky had no desire to involve themselves with one of the "bourgeois" alliances...