{"id":48581,"date":"2019-05-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48581"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:09:26","slug":"us-soldiers-fighting-in-russia-the-end-of-the-polar-bear-expedition-i-the-great-war-may-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/us-soldiers-fighting-in-russia-the-end-of-the-polar-bear-expedition-i-the-great-war-may-1919\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soldiers Fighting in Russia &#8211; The End of the &#8220;Polar Bear Expedition&#8221; I THE GREAT WAR May 1919"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g1Y0d6gKx7Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 28 May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The so called Allied intervention into the Russian Civil War suffered from no clear operational goals and mandate and when US President Woodrow Wilson pulled out the American soldiers that were fighting in Northern Russia in May 1919, the operation suffered another setback. Public pressure against US foreign intervention was increasing now that Germany had been beaten and many people didn&#8217;t understand what American soldiers were doing in Russia anyway. At the same time Winston Churchill and his supporters maintained that it was vital to defeat the Bolsheviks in Russia once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatwar<\/a><br \/>\nMerchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.de\/thegreatwar\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.de\/thegreatwar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nCrownover, Roger. <em>The United States Intervention in North Russia, 1918-1919: The Polar Bear Odyssey<\/em>. Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, Damien. <em>Churchill&#8217;s Secret War With Lenin: British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20<\/em>, Helion and Company, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Long, John W. \u201cAmerican Intervention in Russia: the North Russian Expedition, 1918-1919,\u201d in Arthur Dudden, ed. <em>American empire in the Pacific: from trade to strategic balance 1700 \u2013 1922<\/em> (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004): 321-344.<\/p>\n<p>Mawdsley Evan. <em>The Russian Civil War<\/em>, Pegasus Books, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Moore, Joel. <em>The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919<\/em> (1920)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nMotion Design: Christian Graef &#8211; GRAEFX<br \/>\nMaps: Daniel Kogosov (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Zalezsky\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Zalezsky<\/a>)<br \/>\nResearch by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig <\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Alexander Clark<br \/>\nOriginal Logo: David van Stephold <\/p>\n<p>A Mediakraft Networks Original Channel <\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great War Published on 28 May 2019 The so called Allied intervention into the Russian Civil War suffered from no clear operational goals and mandate and when US President Woodrow Wilson pulled out the American soldiers that were fighting in Northern Russia in May 1919, the operation suffered another setback. 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