ABSTRACT
The foreign interventionist forces left Murmansk and Archangel in 1919. In 1920 and 1921 the Bolsheviks sent two expeditions to the remote ice- bound waste of the Kara Sea, in order to extend their control over the small trading posts, and to supply agricultural implements to farming communities.s in Siberia cut off from European Russia for as much as five years. The icebreaker Lenin led the expeditions, with a Norwegian captain. In 1921 the Lenin was accompanied by the Trotsky, Sverdlov, Leonid Krassin, Arcos and Vneshtorg
