 Pares set his hopes for Russia with the Provisional Government and, after the Bolshevik revolution, moved to Siberia to support Alexander Kolchak's army where he gave frequent lectures to the White troops.He was awarded a KBE for his services to British relations with Russia in 1919, but until 1935 he was banned by the new communist government from re-entering Russia.Pares was not so much a scholar, but proved an organizer and public speaker—skills he put to use after 1919 when he moved to the recently founded School of Slavonic and East European Studies, then a part of King's College London, University of London, He became Professor of Russian Language, Literature and History, editor of the "Slavonic Review" (later "Slavonic and East European Review") and Director of the School.