Dreams of a great small nation: the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe
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In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw an opportunity to realize their long-held dream of independence. While their plan was audacious and complex, and involved moving their 50,000-strong army by land and sea across three-quarters of the earth's expanse, their commitment to fight for the Allies on the Western Front riveted the attention of Allied London, Paris, and Washington. On their journey across Siberia, a brawl erupted at a remote Trans-Siberian rail station that sparked a wholesale rebellion. The marauding Czecho-Slovak Legion seized control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and with it Siberia. In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.
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Armed Forces
Austria & Hungary
Autonomy and independence movements
Campaigns
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
Czechoslovakia -- History, Military
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1918-1938
Czechoslovakia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Czech Republic
Czech Republic -- History
History
History, Military
HISTORY -- Europe -- Austria & Hungary
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I
Legie ruská
Legie česká
Military
Military deserters
Military deserters -- Czechoslovakia
Nonfiction
Participation, Czech
Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Russia -- History -- 1917-1921, Revolution
Slovakia
Slovakia -- History
Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Participation, Czech
Velikai͡a Sibirskai͡a magistralʹ
Velikai͡a Sibirskai͡a magistralʹ -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Russia
World War, 1914-1918 -- Czechoslovakia
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Czech
World War I
Austria & Hungary
Autonomy and independence movements
Campaigns
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
Czechoslovakia -- History, Military
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1918-1938
Czechoslovakia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Czech Republic
Czech Republic -- History
History
History, Military
HISTORY -- Europe -- Austria & Hungary
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I
Legie ruská
Legie česká
Military
Military deserters
Military deserters -- Czechoslovakia
Nonfiction
Participation, Czech
Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Russia -- History -- 1917-1921, Revolution
Slovakia
Slovakia -- History
Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Participation, Czech
Velikai͡a Sibirskai͡a magistralʹ
Velikai͡a Sibirskai͡a magistralʹ -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Russia
World War, 1914-1918 -- Czechoslovakia
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Czech
World War I
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Slovakia -- History
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Dreams of a great small nation : the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe
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Dreams of a Great Small Nation The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
Dreams of a great small nation : the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe / Kevin J. McNamara
Dreams of a great small nation : the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe / Kevin J. McNamara
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Dreams of a great small nation
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the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe
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HISTORY
History
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Military
Military deserters
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Russia & the Former Soviet Union
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
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Military
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Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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World War, 1914-1918
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