Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco (Russia and the Allies, 1917-1920) Book

Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco is the third volume in Michael Kettle's much acclaimed series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war. It begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik overrun Russia had failed, but had succeeded in covering the formation of some anti-Bolshevik White groups sympathetic to allied aid.Kettle writes on a panoramic basis which includes detailed documents from both sides, giving the reader an idea of what each side's leadership had to face as the Russian kaleidoscope constantly changed. He argues that British intervention was doomed to failure and that the White Russians became expendable British pawns designed to contain the Bolshevik inferno within Russia, allowing a prostrate Europe time to recover. The startegic and military miscalculations of British medium intervention was thus to prolong the Russian civil war, and cause a further fourteen million Russian deaths. Using Churchill's previously unpublished last papers and recently accessible French documents, Kettle provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the ``Archangel Fiasco.''Read More