CZECH LEGION

military force of about 40,000 to 50,000 men, composed mostly of Czech and Slovak Russian prisoners of war and deserters from the Austro-Hungarian army who enrolled in the Russian army during World War I. Constituted with the consent of the Russian revolutionary government set up in 1917, the legion took a minor part in fighting the Germans and Austrians. After Russia left the war as a result of the peace of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, an agreement between the legion and the Bolshevik regime in Russia allowed for the evacuation of the legion via the Trans-Siberian RR and its eventual transfer to the Franco-German front. During its evacuation, the legion reluctantly became involved in the Russian civil war, fighting mostly on the anti-Bolshevik side, and controlled in mid-1918 much of the vital railroad line. However, plans (favored by some Allied officials) to use the legion for intervention against the Soviet regime never materialized.

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1.
Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Book by Hillel J. Kieval; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Czech Republic--Ethnic Relations, Jews--Czech Republic--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Jews--Czech Republic--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Jews--Identity
...Community The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands Hillel J. Kieval UNIVERSITY OF...community: the Jewish experience in the Czech lands / Hillel J. Kieval. p. cm. Includes...0-520-21410-2 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Jews Czech Republic Intellectual life 18th century...
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The Transfer of the Sudeten Germans: A Study of Czech-German Relations, 1933-1962
Book by Radomír Luža; New York University Press, 1964
Subjects: Czech Republic--Foreign Relations--Germany, Germans--Sudeten, Germany--Foreign Relations--Czech Republic
...Transfer of the Sudeten Germans A STUDY OF CZECH-GERMAN RELATIONS, 1933-1962 Radomir...significance of three decades of German-Czech relations. In the Introduction I have...Czechoslovak Republic, and the rise of Czech resistance against the process of Germanization...
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The Czech and Slovak Republics: Nation versus State
Book by Carol Skalnik Leff; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Communism--Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic--Politics And Government, Czechoslovakia--Politics And Government--1945-1992, Post-Communism--Czech Republic, Post-Communism--Slovakia, Slovakia--Politics And Government
THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS NATIONS OF THE MODERN...this vital and rapidly evolving region. The Czech and Slovak Republics: Nation Versus State...McCarthy Switzerland , Ulrich Kloti THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS Nation Versus...
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A UN 'Legion': Between Utopia and Reality
Book by Stephen Kinloch-Pichat; Frank Cass, 2004
Subjects: United Nations--Armed Forces, United Nations--Peacekeeping Forces, United Nations--Reorganization
A UN LEGION THE CASS SERIES ON PEACEKEEPING ISSN 1367-9880General...Christina Wood and David S. Sorensen 17. A UN Legion: Between Utopia and Reality by Stephen Kinloch-Pichat A UN Legion Between Utopia and Reality STEPHEN KINLOCH-PICHAT...
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Soldiers Back Home: The American Legion in Illinois, 1919-1939
Book by Thomas B. Littlewood; Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Subjects: Illinois--History--20th Century
...HOME SOLDIERS BACK HOME THE AMERICAN LEGION IN ILLINOIS, 1919 1939 THOMAS B. LITTLEWOOD...Thomas B. Soldiers back home: the American Legion in Illinois, 1919 1939 / Thomas B. Littlewood...bibliographical references and index. 1. American Legion. Dept. of Illinois History 20th century...
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An American Railroad Man East of the Urals, 1918-1922
Journal article by Frederick C. Giffin; The Historian, Vol. 60, 1998
Subjects: Railroad construction workers--History, Railroads--Russia, Russian Railway Service Corps--History, Siberia--History
...Formed in 1914, the legion consisted of Czech and Slovak prisoners...Trans-Siberian to disarm the legion immediately, to execute on the spot every armed Czech found on the railway...his admiration for the Czech Legion, Johnson was convinced...
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Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920
Journal article by Vladimir Brovkin; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920 (Book)--Reviews
...powers. Complex relationships between Kolchak and Allied representatives are explained very well. The ambivalence of the Czech Legion, the lack of Allied recognition, the intervention of Japan in the Far East, and the semi-autonomous War Lords were problems...
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Sirk's Early Exile Films: Boefje and Hitler's Madman
Journal article by Jan-Christopher Horak; Film Criticism, 1999
Subjects: National socialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Religion in motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sirk, Douglas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...resembles another secular patron saint of Czech lands, the fictional character from Gustav...the film it is he who begins singing the Czech national anthem, and he is the last one...who are machine-gunned while singing the Czech national anthem. In a closing double exposure...
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Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels Looks at the Spanish Civil War
Journal article by Robert H. Whealey; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Diaries--Political aspects, Germany--Relations with Spain, Goebbels, Joseph--Political activity, Hitler, Adolf--Political activity, Spain--Relations with Germany, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--History
...again on the eve of the crisis over the Czech Sudetenland, home of many ethnic Germans...supported Chamberlain, especially after the Czech crisis was "resolved" by Hitlers triumph...Britain. On 2 February Hitler called in the Czech foreign minister to apply pressure on the...
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Likeness of No One: (Re)presenting the First Emperor's Army
Journal article by Ladislav Kesner; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, China, Sculpture
...Ostwall, Dortmund, Gutersloh, 1990. Legion The First Emperors Terracotta Legion, compiled by the Archaeological Team of Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, Beijing...Department of Asian Arts, National Gallery, zamek Zbraslav, 15600 Praha 5, Czech Republic.
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Do Design Books Still Matter? A Spate of New Titles Range Broadly and Widely in Their Assessment of the Stage Design Field
Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 24, September 2007
Subjects: Between Taste and Travesty: Costume Designs by William Ivey Long (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century (Book)--Book reviews, Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting (Book)--Book reviews, Sculpting Space in the Theater (Book)--Book reviews, The Designs of Ming Cho Lee (Book)--Book reviews, The Designs of Tharon Musser (Book)--Book reviews, The Designs of Willa Kim (Book)--Book reviews, The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart (Book)--Book reviews, Theaters: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (Book)--Book reviews
...Wilmington, N.C. 71 pp, $24.95 cloth. Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth...costumes and lighting were legion, and not just confined to such...accomplishment. JOE BRANDESKYS CZECH THEATRE Design in the Twentieth...historical survey of the richness of Czech theatre. Comprised of the previously...
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The Realist Kennan
Magazine article by Lee Congdon; American Conservative, Vol. 5, November 20, 2006
Subjects: Democracy, Diplomacy, Diplomatic & consular services, Foreign policy, Kennan, George F, Political alliances
...and French appeals to send American troops into civil-war-torn Russia-until he learned of the Czech Legion. Lenins government had granted the legion, comprised of Russian-born Czechs and Slovaks and former prisoners of war, permission to move...
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Triumph and Catastrophe: In Continuing the Discussion Begun in the July/August 2002 Humanist regarding the Origins of the Strife between Israelis and Palestinians, Events in Israel's First Decade as a Nation Firmly Drew the Lines of Conflict
Magazine article by David Schafer; The Humanist, Vol. 62, November 2002
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflicts--Analysis, Arab-Israeli conflicts--History, Israel-Arab conflicts--Analysis, Israel-Arab conflicts--History, Nasser, Gamal Abdel--Military policy, Palestinian Arab history, 1948-, Sinai-Suez Campaign, 1956--Analysis, Sinai-Suez Campaign, 1956--History, Suez Canal--History
...thousand troops, tanks, and artillery, and even a dozen or so Czech Spitfires and sixteen bombers. The big issue for Israel was...greater threat from the more powerful Egyptian army. The Arab Legion, the only real obstacle to the IDF capture of the West Bank...
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Treasons of the Heart
Magazine article by David Pryce-Jones; New Criterion, Vol. 25, September 2006
Subjects: Ideology--Analysis, Ideology--Political aspects, Political ideologies--Analysis
...Pasha rose to command the Arab Legion in Jordan, and could write...Gottwald expressed it in the Czech parliament in 1929, "We go to...volunteers for another British Legion, this time to be under the auspices...two dozen men joined but the Legion never saw action. At his trial...
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The Legacy of Lydda: Four Decades of Blood Vengeance
Magazine article by Amos Kenan, Richard Flantz; The Nation, Vol. 248, February 6, 1989
Subjects: Arab-Jewish relations--Personal narratives, Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Personal narratives, Jewish-Arab relations--Personal narratives
...out in an orchard on the outskirts of Lydda, armed with our Czech rifles. My best friend, Yankele, and I, we didnt trust or believe...bread and the leftovers of meals eaten by soldiers of the Arab Legion of Transjordan, and an empty city on which a curfew was immediately...
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'City Up against Foreign Legion'
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), September 27, 2005
City Up against Foreign Legion. Byline: By Gavin Allen...players from Belgium, Mali, the Czech Republic, Iceland and Guinea...love to win it. Stokes Foreign Legion: Johan Boskamps imports Carl...Bangoura (Guinea) Martin Kolar (Czech Republic) Hannes Sigurdson...
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Fall-In the Foreign Legion
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 25, 1996
Fall-In the Foreign Legion. More than 200 foreign...LIVERPOOL: Patrik Berger, (Czech Rep, B. Dortmund, pounds 3.25m...pounds 1.2m), Karel Poborsky, (Czech Rep, Slavia Prague, pounds 3...pounds 2.5m), Pavel Srnicek, (Czech Rep, Banik Ostrava, pounds 350...
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Mirror Sport Guide to the Foreign Legion
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 30, 1997
...Mirror Sport Guide to the Foreign Legion. Arsenal Marc Overmars...Rizzo (Ita) and Patrik Berger (Czech). MAN UNITED Celio Silva...Gouw (Hol) and Karel Poborsky (Czech). NEWCASTLE Alessandro Pistone...Asprilla (Col) and Pavel Srnicek (Czech). SHEFF WEDNESDAY Patrick...
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Mirror Sport Guide to the Foreign Legion
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 31, 1997
...Mirror Sport Guide to the Foreign Legion. Arsenal Marc Overmars...Rizzo (Ita) and Patrik Berger (Czech). MAN UNITED Celio Silva...Gouw (Hol) and Karel Poborsky (Czech). NEWCASTLE Alessandro Pistone...Asprilla (Col) and Pavel Srnicek (Czech). SHEFF WEDNESDAY Patrick...
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Football: EASTERN PROMISE; Kilmarnock 2 Hearts 4 Foreign Legion Whets Elvis' Appetite
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 1, 2005
Football: EASTERN PROMISE; Kilmarnock 2 Hearts 4 Foreign Legion Whets Elvis Appetite. Byline: By PAUL SPALDING HEARTS...the best is yet to come. Lithuanian Edgaras Jankauskas and Czech star Roman Bednar took centre stage on their competitive debuts...
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encyclopedia articles on: Czech Legion  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Czech Legion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CZECH LEGION military force of about...000 men, composed mostly of Czech and Slovak Russian prisoners...government set up in 1917, the legion took a minor part in fighting...an agreement between the legion and the Bolshevik regime in...
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Svoboda, LudvÍk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Czechoslovak general and political leader. Svoboda served in the Czech Legion in World War I and became an officer (1922) in the army...entered Prague. In World War II he organized and led a Czech army unit that fought (1941 45) under the Soviet high...
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Masaryk, Thomas Garrigue
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...war years, Masaryk raised funds in the United States for the Czech cause, and in Russia he organized (1917 18) the Czech Legion , an independent Czech army composed largely of former prisoners of war. The national council, of which Masaryk was...
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Russian Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...group of Socialist Revolutionaries who had been members of the constituent assembly. It received the support of the Czech Legion , which controlled the Trans-Siberian RR, but it merged (Sept., 1918) with a more conservative government set up at...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kolchak , who made his capital at Omsk. The White forces were aided by contingents of czarist political exiles and by the Czech Legion, a group of Austrian army deserters who had hoped to fight alongside the czarist army. In Aug., 1918, a U.S., British...


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