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May 10, 2024 · On the Web: Boston University - The Russian Civil War (May 10, 2024) Russian Civil War, (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies.
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As many as 10 million people died as a result of the Russian Civil War, and the overwhelming majority of these were civilian casualties. There is no consensus among the Western historians on the number of deaths from the Red Terror. One source gives estimates of 28,000 executions per year from December 1917 to February 1922.
7,000,000–12,000,000 total casualties. 1–2 million refugees outside Russia. Close. The Russian monarchy ended with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II during the February Revolution, and Russia was in a state of political flux.
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Between 10 and 17 million people died in the fighting or as a result of reprisals, terror, famine and epidemics. In March 1917, the monarchy was toppled in Russia and a republican form of...
- Boris Egorov
Jul 5, 2018 · With about 5.5 million out of 16 million soldiers killed and wounded, the Russian Empire appears to have suffered less than France and Germany. But that does not take into account some other facts: 500,000 soldiers missing, 3 million prisoners of war, 1.1 million disabled, 6 million refugees and tens of thousands of civilian victims.
