The Unspoken Test of Political Legitimacy

After the revolt in chobayink, a large cluster of about eight thousand chekslavak legionaries started rolling east to meet up with their brothers on the far side of the urls. The s r leaders in samara made the point that they all agreed on one thing, that the treaty obreast litovsk was a humiliating disaster. If the s r government reclaimed power from the bolsheviks, who were, after all, probably on the german pay roll, they might be able to reopen the eastern front and fight on the same side again.