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100 1 $aMcNamara, Kevin J.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aDreams of a great small nation :$bthe mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe /$cKevin J. McNamara.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPublicAffairs,$c[2016]
300 $axvii, 395 pages :$bmaps ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 331-379) and index.
505 0 $aLosing a great war -- Under enemy eyes -- Inside enemy lands -- Masaryk's exile -- Russia unravels -- The odyssey begins -- The seizure of Siberia -- The ambivalent intervention -- The moment of truth -- The view from Siberia.
520 $aIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw an opportunity to realize their long-held dream of independence. While their plan was audacious and complex, and involved moving their 50,000-strong army by land and sea across three-quarters of the earths expanse, their commitment to fight for the Allies on the Western Front riveted the attention of Allied London, Paris, and Washington. On their journey across Siberia, a brawl erupted at a remote Trans-Siberian rail station that sparked a wholesale rebellion. The marauding Czecho-Slovak Legion seized control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and with it Siberia. In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.
651 0 $aCzech Republic$xHistory.
651 0 $aSlovakia$xHistory.
651 0 $aCzechoslovakia$xHistory$y1918-1938.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yAllied intervention, 1918-1920.
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