Anna Reid

Anna Reid, journalist-turned-historian known for her work on Russia and Ukraine, examines the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. She recounts sprawling campaigns from Siberia to the Arctic. The conversation highlights shifting Allied aims, soldiers’ harsh daily realities, complicity in pogroms, and how this forgotten adventure was later remembered or erased.

Anna Reid, journalist-turned-historian and author of A Nasty Little War, explores the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War through diaries, letters and memoirs. She traces who intervened and why. She recounts soldiers’ daily lives, mutinies and retreats. She examines pogroms, political maneuvering and how the campaign was remembered and forgotten.