ABSTRACT
At Sevastopol Wrangel deliberately fostered an atmosphere of regularity. French recognition of the South Russian Government, which had seemed to promise so much in June, now began to come into perspective. Stalin and Trotsky were detailed to organise a fresh levy amongst party members to provide shock troops for the final assault on White territory; Budenny was ordered to move the major part of his cavalry from the Polish front southwards to the Taurida. Wrangel's diplomacy was flexible; he had neither the political naïveté of Anton Denikin, nor the intransigence over matters of principle that always distinguished Kolchak's negotiations with foreign powers. The sources of recruits in Poland included those remnants of Denikin's forces who had fled there and been interned, Red units who had gone over to the Poles, Bolshevik prisoners, and former Russian prisoners of the Germans who were still in Poland.
