WOODROW WILSON AND THE ARMED INTERVENTION IN THE SOVIET UNION Zhang Zhenqiang (135) Traditionally, most Soviet and Chinese historians think that Woodrow Wilson was an active organizer of the Allied countries' armed intervention in the Soviet Union in 1918-1920. Relying on the documents of the Soviet government at the time, the author advances a different view. He argues that Wilson at first tried to prevent the intervention and when that failed Wilson made the U. S. role in the intervention a relatively passive one compared with other countries.