The City of the Red Plague: The Bolshevik Occupation of Riga, January – May 1919

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Abstract

This paper seeks to examine the Bolshevik occupation of Riga and its effects during the 1919 Latvian War of Independence. This paper argues the Bolshevik occupation government failed to sustain a manageable military government in a critical Baltic port city due to erroneous old Tsarist occupation patterns and war communism policies.

Author

• Andrew Huebner, U of North Texas