Allied Intervention in Russia

Article abstract: Military significance: Allied intervention affected various campaigns of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921, provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and other World War I treaties, and Russian diplomatic relations with other nations, making it difficult for the victorious nations of World War I to carry on normal relations with the Soviet Union.

Because of U.S. reluctance, the major Allied nations of World War I (1914-1918) intervened slowly in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution (1917-1921) and the Russo-German negotiations at...

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