Redrawing Russia's Southern Border, 1918-1920

• In Event: Creating Their States: Local Involvement in Border Changes after WWI

Abstract

As the participants of the Peace Conference struggled to redraw the map of Europe at the end of the First World War on paper, the competing forces in the collapsed Russian Empire were engaged in their own redrawing on the battlefield. Eventually they met in Paris, where delegates from various groups, factions and newly independent peoples competed for the ears of the great powers to present their case. The boundaries of the freshly established Georgian state were particularly contentious where they bordered the territory of the Kuban Cossack Host and the White army to the north.

Author

• Anatol Shmelev, Hoover Institution