The Historian, June 22nd, 1998
Over 200 experienced railroad construction workers traveled to Siberia in 1917 as members of the Russian Railway Service Corps (RRSC). The RRSC had been formed through an invitation from Alexander Kerensky, leader of the provisional Bolshevik government, to improve the Trans-Siberian Railway. Karensky was replaced by the government of Vladimir I. Lenin, which came to see the RRSC as enemies of the state. The RRSC played a significant role in the ill-prepared Allied military expedition of 1918-1920 to Siberia.
On 11 November 1917, just four days after Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized con...
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