A. I. Ostapenko The Foreign Policy of the  Supreme Ruler of Russia Admiral  A. V. Kolchak

Abstract: The article analyzes the foreign policy of the Supreme Ruler of Russia admiral A. V. Kolchak, attested in a series of documents prepared for the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–1920. The author focuses on the directive line of the “White Movement’s” foreign policy platform , which aimed to preserve a “united and undivided” Russia and thus assumed the restoration of the territories of the Russian Empire to their previous frontiers. At the same time, it is noted that the Supreme Ruler’s declared idea could not be accepted by the governments of the Entente, as their interest in the “White Movement” was limited to its fight against the Bolshevik rule. One of the main sources for this study is the program of action of the Russian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, written by the Omsk administration of A. V. Kolchak. On the basis of this document and on other archival material the author analyzes the political outlook of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, which gives an idea on the character of the envisioned future “method of ruling” the Russian state. The leading idea of A. V. Kolchak’s foreign policy was the idea of ensuing the strategic security and integrity of Russia, which clearly prevailed over safeguarding the internal stability of the multi-national state. On the example of the Ukrainian, Polish and Finnish questions, the authors of the program touched upon the problem of a nation’s right to self-determination and on the principle of border-establishment between Russia and new-founded countries.

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