Foreign Relations

Question 1

Reasons for CW intervention

Answer 1

• wanted to keep Russia fighting on the Eastern front to delay German forces
• Wanted to protect the supplies that had been shipped to Russia
• Support of anti- Bolshevik forces
• Divisions and muddled thinking in allied govs

Question 2

Foreign intervention

Answer 2

• 90000 US troops landed in Vladixstock in Aug 1918
• British forces initiate battle in Nov - Black Sea
• German forces arrive in Latvia to oppose red army in Feb 1919
• Aug 1919 - British naval assault on Baltic Fleet in Petrograd
• Jun 1920, defeated white armies evacuated by British war ships

Question 3

Problems

Answer 3

• Allies didn’t know what was happening and were out of touch
• Depended on individuals to send snippets of information
• Reports were misleading
• Had some enemy spies
• Attempts at peace making and military information

Question 4

Impact of Foreign intervention

Answer 4

• such a small scale, had little impact
• Japanese offence in Siberia was impactful
• Red army was strong enough to survive offences
• Britain and France decided against it
• British gov had a trade agreement with RSFSR in Nov 1920, acknowledging the soviet state

Question 5

The Cominterm

Answer 5

• promoting international revolution
• first congress of the cominterm was held in Moscow in 1919 - more than 50 delegates from US, AUS and Jap - chairman was Zinoviev
• despite being in war, there was optimism about permanent revolution
• Sparticist uprising in Berlin had been supressed in 1919
• Second congress was in Petrograd summer 1920, middle of Russo-Polish War
• dominated by Lenin’s 21 conditions regarding bourgouis and democratic parties
• Secure state
• 3rd congress in summer 1921 dawned that rev might not happen
• committed to internal issues yet still tried to encourage it

Question 6

The Russo-Polish War

Answer 6

• New, independent Poland contained land held formally by imperial Russia
• defining boarders was difficult as Russia wasn’t represented at PPC
• Poland wanted to expand boarders into Belarus and Western Ukraine
• Geographical bridge to the west
• bols were supressing Baltic independence
• Poland launched offencive in Ukraine in May 1920
• Red Army launched an attack and Polish abandoned Kiev
• ‘Mirical on the Vistula’ saved Warsaw