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The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
- Russian Civil War (Disambiguation)
The Russian Civil War (1917–1922) was a multi-party civil...
- Kronstadt Rebels
Part of the Russian Civil War: Loyalist soldiers of the Red...
- Russian Republic
The Russian Republic, referred to as the Russian Democratic...
- Mongolia
The Bogd Khanate of Mongolia was the de facto government of...
- Russian State
The Russian State was a White Army anti-Bolshevik state...
- Green Armies
The Green armies (Russian: Зеленоармейцы), also known as the...
- Basmachi Movement
Part of World War I and the Russian Civil War: Bukhara under...
- Yevgeny Miller
Yevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller (Russian: Евге́ний-Лю́двиг...
- Alexander Kolchak
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Russian: Алекса́ндр...
- Nikolai Yudenich
Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich (Russian: Николай Николаевич...
- Russian Civil War (Disambiguation)
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
- Former Russian Empire
- See § Aftermath
- Background
- Outside Russia
- Periods
- Casualties
- Aftermath
Tsar Nicholas II, the traditional autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, had just lost his throne in the February Revolutionof 1917. Many regions of the Russian Empire were not stable, and many groups had organized themselves to fight. The workers and the farmers who supported the communists organized themselves into the Red Army. Those opposing t...
In Ukraine, some groups fighting for a free Ukraine organized themselves as the Green Army. There were several other groups. The Green Army and the smaller groups fought one another, and they sometimes fought the Red Army and the White Army. Other nationalist armies fought for independence from any kind of Russian control. Finland, Poland, Lithuani...
The Red Army and the White Army fought this war on three main fronts. Those regions were located in the east, the south, and the northwest of what became the Soviet Union. The outbreak of the Russian Civil War and its large scale surprised Vladimir Lenin. There were also three main periods of the war. Soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the ...
About eight million people died during the Russian Civil War. About one million were soldiers of the Red Army.The anti-communists and the White Army killed at least 50,000 communists.Many millions of people also died from famine, starvation, and epidemics. Many Jews were killed by pogroms.During and after the Russian Civil War, Soviet Russia suffered great damage. In 1920 and 1921, there was little rain, which caused serious faminein 1921. About one million Russians left Russia and went to other countries permanently. Many of them were very educated and experts. The economic loss was also very large. The value of Russia’s currency, ...
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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Russian Civil War in the European part of Russia. The Bolshevik grip on power was by no means secure, and a lengthy struggle broke out between the new regime and its opponents, which included the Socialist Revolutionaries, the anti-Bolshevik White movement, and large numbers of peasants.
The Russian civil war was a bitter and devastating conflict to determine Russia's future after the Bolshevik takeover. In simplest terms, the civil war from 1918 to 1920 pitted the Reds (Lenin's communist Bolshevik party) against the Whites (those opposed to the Bolsheviks, particularly tsarist military officers).
Russian Civil War, (1918–20) Conflict between the newly formed Bolshevik government and its Red Army against the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia.
