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UNINA9910817472403321 |
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Autore |
Richard Carl J |
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Titolo |
When the United States invaded Russia [[electronic resource] ] : Woodrow Wilson's Siberian disaster / / Carl J. Richard |
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Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-83459-6 |
1-4422-1990-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Counterinsurgency - Soviet Union - History |
Soviet Union History Allied intervention, 1918-1920 |
Siberia (Russia) History Revolution, 1917-1921 |
United States Military relations Soviet Union |
Soviet Union Military relations United States |
United States Foreign relations 1913-1921 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Map; Ch01. The War to End All Wars; Ch02. The Shadow of a Plan; Ch03. Walking on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite; Ch04. To Make the World Safe for Democracy; Ch05. In Search of a Russian Policy; Ch06. Hard Times, Come Again No More; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This fascinating history explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolution. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that the intervention ironically enabled the survival of the emerging Soviet regime and influenced subsequent Soviet-American relations. The episode also teaches valuable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns and |
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