Following the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia signing a separate peace with Germany, the Allied nations launched a military intervention to try to topple the new Soviet government. A small force of American soldiers, sailors, and railway workers were sent from the meat grinder of the Western Front to the icebox of Siberia and the Russian Arctic without a clear mission nor the means and morale to accomplish it. In this virtual program, we will examine the plight of these men in the “Polar Bear Expedition” to North Russia and the Siberian intervention during this little-known moment of American military and foreign policy history.
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