Status Updates From A Nasty Little War: The Wes...

Important point about interventionist soldiers’ fear and frustration with Russia’s “disconcerting formlessness”. The borders of anything and everything from Lviv to the Volga and beyond oscillated between shifting and nonexistent in the years 1917-1921. How did this impact the conceptualizations of state-based international law emerging at Versailles, Trianon, and Lausanne?

“Civil conflicts are always messy, but the Russian Civil War – more accurately Wars, with ‘Russian’ in inverted commas – was especially so. By the time the Allies arrived in force, in the summer of 1918, two dozen different so-called governments functioned on the territory of the former Russian Empire.” - Reid is a wonderful writer.