When US imperialism invaded Soviet Russia

Following the victory of the Bolsheviks in October 1917, the imperialists of the world did their utmost to strangle the new workers’ state. As well as arming, financing, and supplying the counter-revolutionary White armies, they directly committed troops to intervene in the developing civil war. In this article, John Peterson uncovers the little-known history of the US imperialists’ involvement, and how the Bolsheviks responded on an internationalist class-basis to win the war.

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