why europe allowed soviet russia during 1920s

Foam

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why did the european countries tolerated the soviet union in 1920s instead of trying to restore a monarchy or republic goverment and end a comunist goverment
 
Because the allies were war-weary after having just fought the largest war in History and their people wanted peace, the same reason war wasn't declared on Germany when it remilitarized the Rhineland. Also invading Russia is very difficult
 

longsword14

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why did the european countries tolerated the soviet union in 1920s instead of trying to restore a monarchy or republic goverment and end a comunist goverment
Effort : too high, the rewards : not enough.
Participating fully in a civil war, or undoing the results of it, while the homeland is not threatened would never be possible in 20th century W. Europe.
 

cpip

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why did the european countries tolerated the soviet union in 1920s instead of trying to restore a monarchy or republic goverment and end a comunist goverment

Well, they did try interventions in 1918-1920 (and Japan occupied parts of Siberia into the 1920s). Ultimately, the will and the way simply weren't there. Four years of destructive warfare elsewhere in Europe simply left a lot of countries without the capacity to seriously intervene and bring the war to a close.
 
Mostly war-weariness.

Not to mention at the time radical socialism was new and hardly anyone imagined how problematic it'll be in the future.
 
why did the european countries tolerated the soviet union in 1920s instead of trying to restore a monarchy or republic goverment and end a comunist goverment
Well it's not like it was doing anything or directly threatening anyone in the 1920s. So how could you even sell this idea to the general public? Simply "we need to destroy this nation and embroil ourselves into a multi year long war because they are communist" will not be enough.
 
The governments had enough trouble staving off communist revolutions in their own countries. The poor people did have lots of sympathies for this new workers' state.
 
why did the european countries tolerated the soviet union in 1920s instead of trying to restore a monarchy or republic goverment and end a comunist goverment

To be completely fair, they tried. The European powers, America and Japan launched military invasions or missions into the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow or destabilize the Soviet Union. But it didn't work.

The reality was that Germany was busted, Austria Hungary was gone, Italy was a joke, and France and Britain were near bankrupt and bled white in terms of manpower. The war had claimed most of a generation. The United States was unable and unwilling to commit.

And the reality was that the Soviet Union was an incredibly big place, with terrible weather and the logistics required were well beyond what anyone could come up with.
 
Mostly war-weariness.

Not to mention at the time radical socialism was new and hardly anyone imagined how problematic it'll be in the future.
More than that, the urban working classes, minimally to a very substantial extent and maximally almost universally (the difference being as much as anything different historians’ opinions), supported radical socialism and were highly hostile to the traditional Catholic or Eastern Orthodox authoritarian systems that ruled most countries bordering the USSR on the west.

Although in most of interwar Europe this urban proletariat was a minority reviled by almost every other sector of the population – the landowners, the peasantry, the middle classes, and most of all the churches and the political class – technological change was consistently increasing Europe’s comparative disadvantage in agriculture and thus increasing the power of this left-wing industrial proletariat. Thus, containing its latent power was an essential goal for most of Eastern and Southern Europe during the interwar period, at which they were politically successful. However, if they had invested in a war to defeat the USSR, working class anger – latent under actual traditionalist authoritarian systems – might have become much more open and “swing” sectors of society (the middle classes, the peasantry and the intelligentsia) might have abandoned their hostility towards the urban proletariat. If they did, the urban proletariat would not have been a powerless minority, but could have joined in a majority to spread Marxism.
 
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