From Victoria to Vladivostok

Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19

By Benjamin Isitt
Categories: History, Canadian History, Military History
Series: Studies in Canadian Military History
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774818018, 352 pages, May 2010
Paperback : 9780774818025, 352 pages, November 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774818032, 352 pages, May 2010
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774852845, 352 pages, August 2014
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774859479, 352 pages, May 2010

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Why Siberia?

Part 1: Canada's Road to Siberia

1 1917: A Breach in the Allied Front

2 Vladivostok: 1917

3 The Road to Intervention

4 Mobilization

5 Departure Day

Part 2: To Vladivostok and Back

6 Vladivostok: 1919

7 "Up Country" and Evacuation

8 Afterword

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A highly readable and provocative book that brings to a life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia ? the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in the wake of the Russian Revolution.

Description

This groundbreaking book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia ? the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. Combining military and labour history with the social history of BC, Quebec, and Russia, Benjamin Isitt examines how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time when a radicalized working class, many French-Canadians, and even the soldiers themselves objected to a military adventure designed to counter the Russian Revolution. The result is a highly readable and provocative work that challenges public memory of the First World War while illuminating tensions ? both in Canada and worldwide ? that shaped the course of twentieth-century history.