Аннотация

With the end of the Great War, the principal questions of World reorganization, of Russia’s future among them, caused sharp discussion among the members of the victorious anti-German coalition. The Great European Powers’ tendency to favor the new born republics emerged on the outskirts of the former Russian Empire was considered to be pernicious support of “separatist movements” and rejected by the White Russians, who upheld the principal of Russia’s territorial integrity. Influenced by conflicting opinions of friends and advisers, colonel E. House and State Secretary R. Lansing among them, President W. Wilson was disposed, under certain conditions, to support the latter point of view.