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May 10, 2024 · Russian Civil War (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. The Bolshevik victory ensured the supremacy of the Russian Communists in the nascent Soviet Union.
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2 days ago · European theatre of the Russian Civil War. In the October Revolution, the Bolshevik Party directed the Red Guard (armed groups of workers and Imperial army deserters) to seize control of Petrograd and immediately began the armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
1 day ago · The October Revolution. On the night of October 24-25, 1917 (November 6-7 by the Western calendar), Bolshevik forces, led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, launched an armed insurrection in Petrograd. They seized key government buildings, including the Winter Palace, the headquarters of the Provisional Government.
3 days ago · The initial impetus behind the interventions was to secure munitions and supply depots from falling into the German Empire's hands, particularly after the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and to rescue the Allied forces that had become trapped within Russia after the 1917 October Revolution.
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1 day ago · A long and bloody Civil War ensued between the Bolshevik Reds and the anti-Bolshevik Whites, starting in 1917 and ending in 1923 with the Reds' victory. It also encompassed ethnic conflicts on Russia's borders, and anti-Bolshevik peasant and left-wing uprisings throughout the former Empire.
May 15, 2024 · The Russian Revolution, also called the Russian Revolution of 1917, comprised of two revolutions in 1917; the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power.
May 19, 2024 · The cautionary tale of the Bolshevik revolution. May 19, 2024. Earlier this marked the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Between 1917 and 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the grand total of victims of Communism was between 85 million and 100 million. Executive producer Paul Gregory.
