From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army Quotes

“The Hai Rong set out on 9 April and arrived in Vladivostok a week later to a warm welcome by the Chinese community. It was the first time the Chinese government had used ships to evacuate its citizens from a foreign country.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“Another famous Chinese in the Red Army was Li Fuqing, who became one of the personal bodyguards of Vladimir Lenin.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“The most famous and highest ranking Chinese in the Red Army was Ren Fuchen, aged thirty-three at the time of the Revolution and considered China’s first Bolshevik.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“on 3 March 1918 the new Soviet republic signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, ending the war on the Eastern Front. It was a humiliation for Russia. The country lost one-quarter of the former Russian Empire’s population and industry, including 90 per cent of its coalmines. It renounced all territorial claims to Finland, Belarus and Ukraine, and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Poland became an independent state. The driving force behind the signing of the treaty was Lenin. Despite the enormous losses, he believed that only an immediate peace would allow the young Bolshevik government to consolidate power in Russia, against all its enemies.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“Russia borrowed US$4.5 billion, nearly all of it from Britain and France – a debt that the new Soviet government would repudiate in 1918; it was the largest default in history, and a major reason why the Western powers would oppose the new regime and try to overthrow it.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“Among the arrivals were better-funded migrants from Qingtian, Zhejiang province, who opened small shops and sold products from their hometown, such as flowerpots, carvings, handbags and other leather goods.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“In the 1880s, however, Russia began to be alarmed by the large influx of Chinese, and the term ‘Yellow Peril’ entered the vocabulary.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“More than 40 000 Chinese workers joined the Red Army. Many of this number died fighting for the Revolution and are buried in unmarked graves all over the country. Some became bodyguards of Lenin and others joined the new Soviet secret police, the Cheka.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials

“Ji was one of more than 200 000 Chinese workers who went to Russia during the Great War to assist in the Allied war effort. Some 135 000 Chinese men were also sent to France and Belgium between 1916 and 1922, but Russia would receive the majority of China’s wartime labourers.”
― O'Neill Mark, From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army: Penguin Specials