ABSTRACT
The Red Armies forced the Belaya on 6th June, and three days later captured Ufa, the starting-point of the White offensive. The demoralized White armies, with no defended line behind which to rally, were displaying all the signs of break-up. A review of the course which intervention followed forces one to the inescapable conclusion that the main reason for White failure in Siberia, far from being the personality of Kolchak or his programme, was the meddling of the Allied interveners. The balance of military success during July and August went to the Whites, but their gains were in the wrong direction. The spirits of the majority of the White troops would undoubtedly be high at this stage of the campaign. The American Relief Administration took in hand the provision of food both for White Russian troops and for the civil population of liberated districts.
