History Of The Great War

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207: Polish-Soviet War Pt. 1 Jun 19, 2019

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The First World War was over, the Russian Civil War was ongoing, but the fighting in Eastern Europe was just getting started.

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The Entente and the Polish Question 1914-1916 by Alfred Erich Senn

Soviet-Polish Relations, 1919-1921 by Kirsteen Davina Croll

The Polish-Soviet Campaign of 1920 by Marjan Kukiel

Polish-Czechoslovak Relations, 1918-1922 by Zygmunt J. Gasiorowski

Poland's Policy towards Soviet Russia, 1921-1922 by Zygmunt J. Gąsiorowski

The Military Thought of Władysław Sikorsk by Robert M. Ponichtera

The Politics of Anti-Bolshevism: The French Government and the Russo-Polish War, December 1919 to May 1920 by Michael Jabara Carley

Hands off Russia: British Labour and the Russo-Polish War, 1920 by L.J. Macfarlane

Britain and the Russo-Polish Frontier, 1919-1921 by H.J. Elcock

Lord D'Abernon, the Anglo-French Mission, and the Battle of Warsaw, 1920 by F. Russell Bryant

Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski

White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 by Norman Davies

Anti-Bolshevism in French Foreign Policy: The Crisis in Poland in 1920 by Michael Jabara Carley

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206: The Russian Civil War Pt. 6 Jun 12, 2019

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When the Communist leaders in Moscow defeated the Whites, they still have a plethora of other problems to work though.

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A People's Tragedy The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

The Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement, March 1921 by M.V. Glenny

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movments in Russia, 1918-1922 by Vladimir N. Brovkin

Civil War in Europe, 1905-1945 by Stanley G. Payne

Civil War in South Russia, 1918 by Peter Kenez

Communism and the East: The Baku Congress, 1920 by Stephen White

The Eastern Front 1914-1920: From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War by Michael S. Neiberg & David Jordan

Episodes from the Early Cold War: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1917-1927 by Michael Jabara Carley

Harmonicas for Lenin? The Development of German Economic Policy Toward Soviet Russia December 1918 - June 1919 by Robert Himmer

Red Advance White Defeat Civil War in South Russia 1919-1921 by Peter Kenez

Arkhangel'sk, 1918: Regionalism and Populism in the Russian Civil War by Yanni Kotsonis

Russia and Europe: Diplomacy, Revolution, and Economic Development in the 1920s by Teddy J. Uldricks

Soviet Policy Toward Germany during the Russo-Polish War, 1920 by Robert Himmer

The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 by William Henry Chamberlin

The Problem with Generals: Military Observers and the Origins of the Interventionin Russia and Persia, 1917-1918 by Brock Millman

The Political Significance of German-Soviet Trade Negotiations, 1922-5 by R.P Morgan

The "Russian" Civil War, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World by Jonathan D. Smele

The Transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy: An Analysis of Stalin's Views by Robert Himmer

Why Did the Communists Win or Lose? A Comparative Analysis of the Revolutionary Civil Wars in Russia, Finland, Spain, and China by Pavel Osinsky and Jari Eloranta

The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley

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205: The Russian Civil War Pt. 5 Jun 05, 2019

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In 1919 the White forces in Russia would reach their point of greatest strength, and then they would fall apart.