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Article: Stillborn Crusade: The Tragic Failure of Western Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920
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- Canadian Slavonic Papers
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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Ilya Somin. Stillborn Crusade: The Tragic Failure of Western Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996. ix, 236 pp. Map. Bibliography. Index. $32.95, cloth.
Ilya Somin's Stillborn Crusade is a thoughtful and impressive piece of work, even more so considering that it originated as an undergraduate thesis. Somin reviews the historiography of Western intervention during the Russian Civil War and concludes that the world would have been far better off if the Western Allies had overthrown the Bolsheviks while they were weak.
Somin's history of the Civil War and intervention is not meant to be original scholarship. The footnotes are almost ...