The Murmansk Venture
Author | : Sir Charles Clarkson Martin Maynard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
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Author | : Sir Charles Clarkson Martin Maynard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
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Author | : Major-General Sir C. Maynard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845748227 |
The icy northern Russian port of Murmansk was the scene of one part of the international intervention by an array of western nations at the end of the Great War in a doomed bid to overturn the Bolshevik regime which had seized control of Russia in 1917. Britain sent a task force to Murmansk to aid White Russian troops battling the Bolsheviks, and this book tells how they fared. Written by the commander of the force, Major-General Sir Charles Maynard, this book tells the full story of the inglorious expedition. Maynard's force was sent to Murmansk late in the Great War to deny the port and its facilities to the Germans after they had concluded the Treaty of Brest-LItoskv with the Bolsheviks. A village before the war, Murmansk had increased in importance thanks to the construction of a railway to St Petersburg, making it the best placed port in north-west Russia. After the German surrender, Maynard's tiny force, backed up by small naval and RAF contingents, stayed in the area to help White Russians in their civil war with the Bolsheviks - they succeeded in pushing the Reds south, but withdrew in 1920, with Maynard's only regret being 'That the help we gave fell short of that required to throttle in its infancy the noisome beast of Bolshevism'.
Author | : Charles Clarkson Martin Maynard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
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Author | : C. Maynard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781539967248 |
"...the help we gave fell short of that required to throttle in its infancy the noisome beast of Bolshevism." In March 1918, Bolshevik Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russia's participation in the First World War Major-General Sir Charles Maynard's task force arrived in Murmansk to defend the port in North West Russia from Germany. But as that war drew to a close, another was beginning and Maynard's objective changed. Supported by small units of the RAF and Royal Navy, Maynard's troops were to help the White Russian Army defend the area from the Red Bolshevik Army in their bitter civil war. Exhausted, frozen, understaffed and with barely any funds, Maynard faced a challenging and doomed task. In Murmansk, the sun does not rise for forty days of the year - over a month of total darkness. Maynard fought on, winning territory, supporting the anti-Bolshevik movement, even sailing in person back to England to argue with the treasury. A multinational force, Maynard's men included Italians, Serbians and Finnish soldiers amongst the ranks of the British Soldiers. With no facilities of off duty relaxation, tensions were high. Trouble feeding and paying the Russian labourers led to unrest and strike action. First published in 1928, The Murmansk Venture is a fascinating military insight into an often-overlooked and inglorious venture. Praise for The Murmansk Venture 'The British Commander-in-Chief gives a vivid account of the campaign and adds materially to our knowledge of this phase of the war.' - Foreign Affairs Sir Charles Clarkson Martin Maynard (1870-1945) commanded the British expedition to Murmansk in North West Russia. During his military service, Maynard was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
Author | : Sir Charles Clarkson Martin Maynard (K.C.B.) |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Clifford Kinvig |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2007-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847250211 |
The first complete account of a unique military operation - and of why it ended in failure.
Author | : Richard K. Debo |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773508286 |
At a time when the Soviet Union is disintegrating, Richard Debo provides an intriguing and detailed examination of the new political realities that slowly and painfully emerged in eastern Europe out of the chaos left in the wake of the First World War. Revealing the reasons for the victory of Lenin's Bolshevik government in the Russian civil war, Debo demonstrates that Bolshevik political and diplomatic skills were far superior to those of either their indigenous opponents or their many foreign enemies. For much of 1919, enemies of the Soviet government were more interested in fighting each other than the Bolsheviks, and, although foreign powers sought to influence competing anti-Bolshevik generals, they actually contributed little to the defeat of the Red Army. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks established realistic priorities, formulated flexible policies, and made political sacrifices unimagined by their enemies. As a result they were able to find allies and divide opponents.
Author | : Li︠u︡dmila Gennadʹevna Novikova |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299317404 |
Shows that the Russian Civil War was not a struggle between a Communist future and a Tsarist past but rather was a bloody fight among diverse factions in a postrevolutionary state. Focusing on the sparsely populated Arkhangelsk region in northern Russia, Novikova shows that the anti-Bolshevik government there, which held out from 1918 to early 1920, was a revolutionary alternative bolstered by broad popular support.
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Total Pages | : 1572 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author | : Michael Hughes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1852851600 |
The twentieth century has been fundamentally shaped by changes in Russia, where disaster in the First World War was followed by the fall of the Tsar. Nicholas II's replacement first by Kerensky's liberal government then by the Bolsheviks, and the subsequent Civil War and foreign intervention, led to the erection of a system of state tyranny previously unthought of. The Bolshevik regime, with its ideological hatred of other regimes, was a threat to the west where developments in Russia were watched with both horror and fascination. Britain's information about this series of extraordinary events, and about what might be about to happen next, was largely dependent on the small number of British officials, mainly diplomats, posted in Russia. Inside the Enigma gives us a view from an unusual and privileged angle of the history of Russia between the turn of the century and the beginning of the Second World War. The discomforts and privations suffered by British officials were matched by their frustration. Impenetrable Tsarist court intrigue was replaced by a wall of disinformation and suspicion after the Bolshevik seizure of power. Nevertheless, what they saw and reported makes remarkable reading.