A nasty little war: the Western intervention into the Russian Civil War

Part I. After the revolution, February 1917-August 1918 : Unerhört!

'A lot of impossible folks'

Brother Czecho

Aide memoire

'We are not here to conquer'

Part II. The intervention begins, August 1918-April 1919 : Charley Chaplin's coup

The hush-hush brigade

'Eggs loaded with dynamite'

'A feeling of smothering'

Paris and Shenkursk

Prinkipo and Siberia

L'entente de ma tante

Part III. White advances, April-September 1919 : 'Our poor little unarmed soldiers'

Dyer's battalion

One last packet

Honorary Cossacks

The stubborn German eagle

Ironside's bed

Part IV. White retreats, September 1919-March 1920 : 'We liked the Balts'

To Moscow!

'Russia is a quicksand'

'The falls of Niagara'

The heartland

Tak!

Part V. The end, 1920 : 'Do we not trade with cannibals?'

Aftermath.