Why was the foreign intervention in the Russian Civil war not more decisive?
There were 3 main reasons. Firstly, other countries could only land troops and equipment at the edges of Russia, and even then needed friendly ports controlled by the pro Czarist Whites faction to receive them.This limited them to Archangel,in the far north, and Vladivostock,in the far East on the Pacific coast.Archangel was impractical for much of the winter, and the Bolsheviks kept up pressure on their enemies in these areas.As a result,it was difficult for foreign powers to project their military intervention into the decisive theatres of the Russian Civil War. Secondly, general war weariness after WW1. The soldiers in Allied armies wanted to go home, not off to some new war.Canadian soldiers earmarked for deployment to Russia mutinied at their barracks in Wales (1919), insisting on being shipped home. There was also the cost to consider – the major Allies,apart from USA,were close to bankruptcy by the wars end; a long term commitment to the Russian Civil War was something they simp
