ABSTRACT

The Peace Conference, having delivered their peace terms to Germany, could now turn to Russia. Peacemaking with the Bolsheviks had failed. Could they now assist the Whites to overthrow them? The Golovin master-plan seemed the best proposal to bring this about. It envisaged the immediate creation of a new Russian front in the Baltic to link up with Kolchak in Siberia and Allied troops in North Russia, and thus clear the whole area north of Moscow, and prevent the Bolsheviks massing against Kolchak, whilst Denikin was reorganising his forces after the French debacle in the Ukraine, which had prevented him from marching on Moscow from South Russia.