The Eagle in the Arctic: The Prologue to a Century of American Intervention ...
The American Intervention in the Russian Civil War serves as a prologue to interventions over the next century, all the way to the War in Afghanistan (2001-2021). To forward the historical understanding, it is important to investigate the related literature for how this conflict has been forgotten,...
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University of Virginia
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.18130/nwz6-8n76 https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/s1784n077 |
| Summary: | The American Intervention in the Russian Civil War serves as a prologue to interventions over the next century, all the way to the War in Afghanistan (2001-2021). To forward the historical understanding, it is important to investigate the related literature for how this conflict has been forgotten, how the related works came to conclusions that were rooted in the contexts in which they were written, and how interest in the subject increased or decreased in trends mirroring the temperament of the relations between the United States and Russia, which this paper hopes to address. American foreign policy is best understood through a holistic understanding of the situation at hand which involves the military concerns of involved parties, the political motives of the actors involved, as well as the impacts of history's lasting legacy on the present. It was an undeclared war, one of many the United States would take part in throughout the Twentieth Century. In this Intervention, the Americans were a junior partner, ... |
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