Book is in French This essential and stimulating book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia: the journey from Victoria to Vladivostok, in 1918, of 4,200 Canadian soldiers sent to reinforce the war against Bolshevism. It sheds light on the way in which the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time when a working class tending towards radicalization, many French Canadians and even the soldiers themselves contested a military enterprise intended to counter the Russian Revolution. "Isitt's work is new, innovative and important. It skillfully interweaves the threads of opposition to the war among the Canadian working class and growing labor sentiment among workers, with those of life within the Siberian Expedition itself... It also brings together, which is no less important, the threads of a national history and an international history. It reveals new aspects of international cooperation aimed at crushing the Bolshevik revolution, as well as international rivalries between the countries that intervened in Russia. Larry Hannant, editor of Politics of Passion. Letters, creations and writings. Norman Bethune "From Victoria to Vladivostok sheds new light on a moment in Canadian history that previous scholars had described as a sideline, a rather embarrassing episode that had no impact on the First World War. Isitt, on the contrary, sees that the problems which arose in this expedition stemmed from the conflicting conceptions that people had of Bolshevism in Canada, as well as from the different perceptions of the logic which governed the intervention in Russia. In this, his contribution is both important and original." Jonathan Vance, author of Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War against Nazi Occupation