Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War Powers to withdraw from North Russia and Siberia in 1920, though Japanese forces occupied parts of Siberia until 1922 and the northern half of Sakhalin until 1925. In 1917, Russia was in a state of political strife, and public support for World War I and the Tsar was dwindling. The country was on the brink of revolution. The February Revolution changed the course of the war; under intense political pressure, the Tsar abdicated and the Russian Provisional Government was formed, led initially by Georgy Lvov and later by Alexander Kerensky. The Provisional Government pledged to continue fighting the Germans on
The Secret of the Old Clock Canadian public domain, as Harriet Stratmeyer Adams died in 1982. However, the original text, as written by Mildred Wirt Benson (who died in 2002), and the character of Nancy Drew, will not enter the Canadian public domain until January 1, 2053, due to Canada's life-plus-50 years copyright policy. (Canadian Copyright Act, Sections 6.1 & 6.2) In the United States, the original text will enter the American public domain in 2025 (95 years after it was first published), while the revised text will not enter until 2054. The Secret of the Old Clock The Secret of the Old Clock is the