A Nasty Little War: The West and the Russian Civil War
Location:
National Army Museum (Foyle 1)
Date & time:
Sunday 29 Sep 2024, 12.00pm
Price:
£12.00
Bestselling author Anna Reid brings to life the extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution.
About the event
In the closing months of the First World War, Britain, America, France and Japan sent arms and 180,000 soldiers to Russia, with the aim of tipping the balance in her post-revolutionary Civil War. From Central Asia to the Arctic, and from Poland to the Pacific, they joined anti-Bolshevik forces in trying to overthrow the new men in the Kremlin, in an ambitious military adventure known as the Intervention.
Drawing on previously unseen diaries, letters and memoirs, Anna Reid brings to life the extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution.
About the speaker
Anna Reid was Kiev correspondent for the Economist and the Daily Telegraph and ran the foreign affairs programme of the think-tank Policy Exchange. Her first book, ‘Borderland: A Journey through the History of the Ukraine’, was published in 1997 to wide acclaim.
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