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Anna Reid discusses how armies from Britain, France, America and Japan invaded Russia during the First World War in a bid to topple the Bolsheviks <\/p>

By Danny Bird\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 08 March 2024 at 07:22 AM<\/p>

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Following the October Revolution of 1917, Russia\u2019s nascent Bolshevik regime acted on its word to take the country out of the First World War by brokering peace with Germany. Speaking to Danny Bird, Anna Reid explains how this prompted Britain, France, America and Japan to launch a joint \u2018intervention\u2019, by invading the vast terrain of the crumbling Russian empire in support of anti-Bolshevik forces.<\/p>\n\n

Anna Reid is the author of A Nasty Little War: The West\u2019s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution<\/em> (John Murray Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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