The Policy of A. V. Kolchak's Government, November 1918 - 1920 (English translation of a 2010 Russian-language term paper)

English translation of a term paper (Kursovaya rabota) originally written in Russian and submitted in 2010 at the Department of Modern Russian History, Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Russia; supervisor: V. L. Kozhevin. This is undergraduate coursework, posted as is; the abstract and keywords were added by the translator and are not in the original. The paper expresses the student author's own assessments of its subject. Abstract: This paper examines the policy of the government of Admiral A. V. Kolchak, Supreme Ruler of Russia, from his coming to power in Omsk on 18 November 1918 to the collapse of his government in 1920. It covers the circumstances of the coup that brought him to power, his declared political course and his vision of Russia's future, and then his agrarian, national, labour and foreign policies. It argues that the course Kolchak proclaimed was sincerely democratic in intent, but that the priority he gave to defeating Bolshevism and the conditions of civil war pushed his regime toward dictatorship and restoration. The paper rests on published documents and on the memoirs of G. K. Gins, together with the work of I. F. Plotnikov and the Soviet historian G. Z. Ioffe. The author was formerly named Marina A. Permyakova (the name on the original).