The civil war that took place in Russia during the early 1900’s was one that not only involved Russia, but many other countries that had specific interests in the war. One of the countries to with specific personal interests was the United States of America. In order to act upon the desires of the United States, President Woodrow Wilson was faced with a dilemma that went the core of everything he stood for. In order to solve this dilemma, Wilson used much patience and political savvy, and ultimately fulfilled the goal of United States intervention.
The Russian Civil War took place in November 1917, coming off the heels of the Russian Revolution. The revolution took place in March of that year, and was the direct cause of the civil war. So in order to understand the civil war, one must take a look at the Russian Revolution first.
The Russian Revolution came as a result of the increasingly bad living conditions in Russia; the peasants had little to no food and the working class was underpaid while the upper class lead a comparably luxurious lifestyle. The revolutionaries felt that the answer to all the problems would be a shift to communism. The reason they felt this way is because communism, which has the same homiletic roots
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He then told the English, "We must watch the situation carefully and sympathetically and be ready to move whenever the right time arrives. The United States would thereby further their advantage as far as Germany was concerned for they could support the Bolsheviks against Germany and as far as future relations with Russia were concerned for the Bolsheviks would be the future of Russia. Wilson thereby accomplished dealing with both problems; he now showed that his opposition to the Bolsheviks was not an anti-communist agenda, but rather an anti-German one, and he defined them as being anti-self-government by grouping them with the imperialist Germans. However, the British government advised him that “ any overt step taken against the Bolsheviks might only strengthen their determination to make peace with Germany and might be used to influence Anti-Allied feeling in Russia. The Bolsheviks were communist and therefore, did not hold of the economic freedom that Wilson spoke of. Not only did they not hold of the United States’ notion of economic freedom, they did not hold of the general concept of freedom that the US stood for. Those factors presented themselves in the form of Colonel William V. Wilson himself was one who knew this better than anyone else. First, he pulled out of participation in the war but agreed to acquiesce to Japanese intervention.
With the withdrawal of Russia from the war, the Czech Legion, which had been fighting with the Russians against the Germans, began to retreat eastward, through the Ukraine, and then into Siberia. The Socialist Revolutionaries also didn’t appreciate that the Bolsheviks had ignored all demands for free press, free trade unions and free elections.
This abrupt change in policy served as one of Wilson’s finest hours. He admitted, in a letter to Lincoln Colcord that the bulk of the information he received classified the Bolsheviks as radical revolutionaries and not German agents.
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