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This volume, originally published in 1990 and now with an updated Preface, gives an account of the Allies' last concerted attempt to destroy Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime. At the start, it looked like a threat that should be taken seriously, as the Reds' enemies both native and foreign combined with trained mercenaries under the leadership of a Tsarist admiral. But it finished with a firing squad on the ice, and a grisly end for the ill-fated Admiral Kolchak. With him died the last hope for the old order in Russia, and the future of the new Soviet state was secure. The skill of the author's narrative lies in his mastery both of the detail and of the wider implications of these epic events.

The following essay is a historiographical analysis of the American intervention in Russia from 1918 to 1920. The objective of this paper is to analyze the arguments of nine historians who address all or some of the aspects of Woodrow Wilson's policy toward Russia starting after the Bolshevik revolution in November 1917, and ending in January 1920. The method utilized here entails the examination of primary evidence found mainly in several volumes of Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States and then evaluating each author's argument in light of these documents. This method of analysis reveals that those authors who argue that Wilson prompted the intervention in response to "external" pressure provide the strongest explanation for the President's motivation to dispatch troops. On the other hand, those authors who contend that the motivation to continue troop deployment after the war was based on the pursuit of economic objectives provide a cogent explanation for prolonging the intervention in 1919.

Professor Maddox ved Pennsylvania State University behandler, med vægt på de politiske-diplomatiske omstændigheder, USA's deltagelse i interventionen i Rusland 1918-1920.