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The Czechoslovak involvement in the Russian Civil War
By defeating the Red Guards and taking control of the Siberian railway, the Czechoslovak Legion gave a helping hand to the White movement, a loose coalition of forces opposed to the new Bolshevik regime. Moreover, the Whites even requested their help, hoping for a...
The revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion against the Bolsheviks
Immediately after the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, the Czechoslovak Legion decided that the struggle for independence against the Austro-Hungarian Empire must continue and were set to go to France, half a world away. They avoided enemy capture and headed for the east of...
Thomas Masaryk, the “President Liberator” of Czechoslovakia
Thomas Masaryk was one of the great personalities of Czechoslovakia’s struggle for independence during the First World War. His initial idea was to reform the internal politics of the Habsburg Empire- transforming the monarchy into a democratic federal state- but gave...
The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia. Games of mistrust
The beginning of the First World War represented for the Czechs and Slovaks a major opportunity to fight for their independence against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Representatives of these minorities in Russia proposed to that country’s government to support their...