The Ironside Diaries: A Glimpse into the Reality of Life on the Front in Northern Russia Against Bolshevism

By Toslima Khatun, Post-Doctoral Researcher, King’s College London Archives General Edmund Ironside (d.1959) was a prominent member of the British Army, and instrumental in the fight against the Bolsheviks in Northern Russia (particularly in Archangel) right up until the whole country was lost by Western European efforts against communism and anti-monarchism. Ironside, who was firmly …