RĂZBOIUL CIVIL RUS VĂZUT DE LA DUNĂREA DE JOS: INTERVENȚIA ALIAȚILOR, NAȚIONALISMUL UCRAINEAN ȘI CRIZA REFUGIAȚILOR (1918–1924)
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR SEEN FROM THE LOWER DANUBE: ALLIED INTERVENTION, UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS (1918–1924)

Summary/Abstract: In 1917–1918, the Allied Powers became concerned at the collapse of the Eastern front and the loss of their Tsarist ally to communism. After the Bolshevik government withdrew from World War I, the Allied Powers militarily backed the anti-communist White forces in Russia. Allied efforts were hampered by divided objectives, war-weariness from the overall global conflict, and a lack of local support. On December 1918, a month after the Armistice of 11 November 1918, the French occupied Odessa. This began the intervention in southern Russia which was to aid and supply General Denikin's White Army forces, the Volunteer Army, fighting the Bolsheviks there. The campaign involved French, Polish, and Greek troops. By April 1919, they were withdrawn before the defeat of the White Army's march against Moscow. General Piotr Wrangel reorganized his army in the Crimea; however, with the deteriorating situation, he and his soldiers fled Russia aboard Allied ships on 14 November 1920. This study presents the evolution of the Russian Civil War through the eyes of the Braila press and with the help the archive documents are presented the information about the drama of refugees.

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