ABSTRACT

During the first three weeks of June 1918, Semenov’s future looked grim. After striking 220 miles into Bolshevik Transbaikalia in April and May, his volunteers were once again squatting among the ruins of the ramparts of Genghis Khan that wound along the Mongolian, Russian and Chinese frontiers, undermined by their own White comrades in Harbin. OMO’s respite during the third week of June 1918 had been inadvertently prompted by widespread attacks against the Reds by some 55,000 Czechoslovak soldiers strung out along the Trans-Siberian Railway from Samara on the Volga river to Vladivostok.