id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cey-1691	Fixler, Nicholas William	An Inconceivable Odyssey: The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia, 1914-1918	2019	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6643	222	53	The declaration of Czechoslovak independence and the armistice on the Western Front both occurred at roughly the same time and were twin blows to Legion morale when word arrived of their occurrence in late fall 1918.37 As Czechoslovakia now existed and the German Empire was no longer fighting on the Western Front, the Legion now had no reason to continue to fight, and many Legionaries began to question why they were still in combat in Russia.38 Mutinies and more mundane acts of insubordination happened with greater and greater consistency throughout the last quarter of 1918, to the point that the Czechoslovak Legion was no longer viable as an offensive fighting force, and it was ordered off the line in late January 1919.39 The Hungarian invasion of Czechoslovakia was a further blow to morale, though this occurred after the Legion had been pulled off the line.40 Another challenge that the Legion faced was that it was isolated on foreign soil and caught between competing interests at almost all times. This article shows that, thanks to its unusual structure and state-like attributes, including an independent foreign policy through an independent command and its own mobile economic infrastructure, the Czechoslovak Legion had the wherewithal to fight in and withdraw from Russia successfully.	cache/cey-1691.pdf	txt/cey-1691.txt