If we are to judge by the account T. G. Masaryk provides of his plans for the Czechoslovak Army Corps in Russia in Světova revoluce, his memoirs of his activities during the First World War, the matter was fairly straightforward. He went to Russia, he tells us,² in May 1917 to organise a Czechoslovak army, and, in line with the agreement he had reached the previous year with the French government, that army was to be transferred to the Western front.