The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But why didn’t the Intervention take place anyway? For various complex reasons. Either because Poincare hadn’t been elected in France, or else because our émigré industrialists decided that their former enterprises had not yet been sufficiently restored by the Bolsheviks—let the Bolsheviks do more. And then, too, they couldn’t seem to come to terms with Poland and Rumania. So, all right, there hadn’t been any intervention, but there was, at least, a Promparty!