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The Russian Civil War's most eastern front in Siberia saw a supranational intervention by several world powers in the name of stopping Bolshevism. But the tens of thousands of foreign soldiers were not the only opposition to the Bolsheviks, white warlords and anarchist peasant revolts also meddled in this complex situation.
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История Дальнего Востока России. Дальний Восток России в период революций 1917 и Гражданской войны. Т.3. Кн.1 ( Владивосток: Дальнаука, 2003)
Мармышев А. В., Елисеенко А. Г. Гражданская война в Енисейской губернии ( Красноярск: Версо, 2008)
Новиков П.А. Гражданская война в Восточной Сибири ( Москва: Центрполиграф, 2005)
Революция и Гражданская война в России 1917-1923. Энциклопедия в четырех томах ( Москва: Терра, 2008)
Саблин И. Дальневосточная республика: от идеи до ликвидации (Москва: НЛО, 2020)
Шишкин В.И. Сибирская Вандея: вооруженное сопротивление коммунистическому режиму в 1920 году ( Новосибирск: Олсиб, 1997)
Bisher, Jamie. “White Terror: Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian” (Routledge, 2015)
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Foglesong, David S. “America’s secret war against Bolshevism: U.S. intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920” (The University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Humphreys, Leonard A. “The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920’s” (Stanford: Stanford UniversityPress, 1995)
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Smele, Jonathan D. “Civil war in Siberia: the anti-Bolshevik government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920” (NY: Cambridge University Press. 2006)
Smele, Jonathan D. “Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
Wright, Damien. “Churchill’s Secret War with Lenin: British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918–20” (Solihull: Helion & Company, 2017)
Mawdsley, Evan. “The Russian Civil War” (Pegasus Books, 2007).
Engelstein, Laura. „Russia in Flames“ (OUP, 2018).
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The Russian Civil War's most eastern front in Siberia saw a supranational intervention by several world powers in the name of stopping Bolshevism. But the tens of thousands of foreign soldiers were not the only opposition to the Bolsheviks, white warlords and anarchist peasant revolts also meddled in this complex situation.
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» SOURCES
История Дальнего Востока России. Дальний Восток России в период революций 1917 и Гражданской войны. Т.3. Кн.1 ( Владивосток: Дальнаука, 2003)
Мармышев А. В., Елисеенко А. Г. Гражданская война в Енисейской губернии ( Красноярск: Версо, 2008)
Новиков П.А. Гражданская война в Восточной Сибири ( Москва: Центрполиграф, 2005)
Революция и Гражданская война в России 1917-1923. Энциклопедия в четырех томах ( Москва: Терра, 2008)
Саблин И. Дальневосточная республика: от идеи до ликвидации (Москва: НЛО, 2020)
Шишкин В.И. Сибирская Вандея: вооруженное сопротивление коммунистическому режиму в 1920 году ( Новосибирск: Олсиб, 1997)
Bisher, Jamie. “White Terror: Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian” (Routledge, 2015)
Dunscomb, Paul E. “Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the People”” (Lexington Books, 2011)
Foglesong, David S. “America’s secret war against Bolshevism: U.S. intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920” (The University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Humphreys, Leonard A. “The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920’s” (Stanford: Stanford UniversityPress, 1995)
Moffat, Ian C. D. “The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918–1920. The Diplomacy of Chaos” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Smele, Jonathan D. “Civil war in Siberia: the anti-Bolshevik government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920” (NY: Cambridge University Press. 2006)
Smele, Jonathan D. “Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
Wright, Damien. “Churchill’s Secret War with Lenin: British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918–20” (Solihull: Helion & Company, 2017)
Mawdsley, Evan. “The Russian Civil War” (Pegasus Books, 2007).
Engelstein, Laura. „Russia in Flames“ (OUP, 2018).
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16 DAYS IN BERLIN: realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin
»CREDITS
Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Jesse Alexander
Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig
Director of Photography: Toni Steller
Sound: Toni Steller
Editing: Toni Steller
Motion Design: Philipp Appelt
Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: above-zero.com
Maps: Daniel Kogosov (patreon.com/Zalezsky)
Research by: Jesse Alexander
Fact checking: Florian Wittig
Channel Design: Yves Thimian
Contains licensed material by getty images
All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020
