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Russian Civil War
Part of the Russian Revolution, the aftermath of World War I, and the interwar period

Clockwise from top left:
Date8 November 1917 – 25 October 1922[z][1]: 3, 230 [2]
(4 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Former Russian Empire, with spillover into Mongolia and Iran
Result
  • Bolshevik victory
  • Partial victory by independence movements (see § Aftermath)
Territorial
changes
  • Establishment of the Soviet Union by the Bolsheviks across most of the former Russian Empire
  • Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland successfully become independent from Russia
  • Bessarabia joins Romania
  • Mongolia and Tannu Tuva become satellite states of the Soviet Union
  • Main belligerents

    Bolsheviks
    RSFSR
    BSSR
    ( 1919; 1919–20;
    1920–22)
    UkSSR
    ( 1917–18; 1918;
    1919–22)
    TSFSR (1922)
    Regional Bolshevik forces


    Supported by


    Pro-Allied Separatists[t]


    Supported by
    Commanders and leaders

    Vladimir Lenin
    Leon Trotsky
    Yakov Sverdlov #
    Mikhail Kalinin
    Jukums Vācietis
    Grigory Zinoviev
    Lev Kamenev
    Sergey Kamenev
    M. Tukhachevsky
    Mikhail Frunze
    Joseph Stalin
    Nikolai Bukharin
    Aleksei Brusilov
    Yukhym Medvedev
    Vilhelm Knorin
    Martuni
    A. Krasnoshchyokov
    Damdin Sükhbaatar
    and others


    Viktor Chernov
    Boris Kamkov
    Maria Spiridonova
    Mikhail Muravyov
    Danylo Terpylo (DOW)
    Nykyfor Hryhoriv X
    Russia A. Antonov 
    Nestor Makhno
    Fedir Shchus 
    Viktor Bilash
    Dmitry Popov  Executed
    Stepan Petrichenko
    and others

    Alexander Kerensky  Surrendered


    Alexander Kolchak Executed
    Lavr Kornilov 
    Anton Denikin
    Pyotr Wrangel
    Nikolai Yudenich
    Pyotr Krasnov
    Alexey Kaledin X
    Vladimir Kappel #
    Nikolai Avksentiev
    Anatoly Pepelyayev
    Grigory Semyonov
    Alikhan Bukeikhanov
    and others


    Otani Kikuzo
    Radola Gajda
    Maurice Janin
    and others


    Poland Józef Piłsudski
    C. G. E. Mannerheim
    Symon Petliura
    Democratic Republic of Georgia Noe Zhordania
    and others


    German Empire Hermann von Eichhorn X
    Ottoman Empire Nuri Pasha
    Enver Pasha 
    and others
    Strength
    Red Army:
    5,498,000 (peak)[3][aa]

    Mongolian People's Army: ~17,000


    White Army
    ( 1919):
    1,023,000 (peak)[ab]

    German Army:
    ~547,000 (peak)

    Ottoman Empire Ottoman Army:
    20,000 (peak)
    Iron Division:
    14,000 (peak)
    Forest Guerrillas:
    3,000+

    Finnish Volunteers:
    8,000 (peak)
    Casualties and losses

    >300,000 (collectively)
    >13,300
    ~1,000 
    • 13,000 killed
    • 6,500 killed
    • United Kingdom 938+ killed[7]
    • United States 596 killed
    • Romania 350 killed
    • Kingdom of Greece 179 killed
    • Poland ~250,000
    • ~125,000
    • ~5,000
    • ~3,000 killed
    • Estonia 3,888 killed
    • Latvia 3,046 killed
    • 1,444 killed[8]

    • German Empire 500 killed
    1. ^ Polish–Lithuanian War
    2. ^ Red Army invasion of Armenia
    3. ^ Aligned with the Bolsheviks until March 1918, when they fell out over the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Most Left SRs opposed the Bolsheviks afterward, but a minority of Left SRs remained allied to the Bolsheviks for years after.
    4. ^ Intermittently aligned with the Bolsheviks until 1920; opposed after.
    5. ^ Aligned with the Bolsheviks until 1919; opposed after.
    6. ^ initially supported Bolsheviks during the October Revolution; gradually became more opposed
    7. ^ De facto deposed after the Bolshevik Coup of November 1917; formally abolished in January 1918 after the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. The White movement then promised to convey a new constituent assembly and reestablish the state accordingly with its decisions.
    8. ^ Anti-Bolshevik soviets and Assemblies of Workers' Plenipotentiaries
    9. ^ Came close to war with the Siberian Army
    10. ^ Allegiance to the Russian State between 3 January 1919 and February 1920. See Russian Army (1919).
    11. ^ Japan also stayed in North Sakhalin until 1925.
    12. ^ Supported Bolsheviks against Finnish-backed Karelians during the Viena expedition
    13. ^ The Allies also supported Pro-Allied separatists when Central Powers supported the White Movement
    14. ^ Briefly was a Central Power (February-April 1918)
    15. ^ Fought a war with Poland before they became allies
    16. ^ Opposed to White Army
    17. ^ Created as a Central Power puppet state that later became pro-allied
    18. ^ Created as a Central Power puppet state that later became pro-allied
    19. ^ Allied-backed when assisting Estonians, Central Power when assisting Karelians and Ingrians. See Heimosodat
    20. ^ Some pro-Allied separatists saw the Bolsheviks as a bigger threat than the White Army, while some were opposed to both. Sometimes Central Powers supported various White movements that were opposed to separatism (particularly the Don Republic, the Kuban People's Republic and the West Russian Volunteer Army)
    21. ^ Finnish Civil War
    22. ^ Polish-Soviet War
    23. ^ Basmachi movement
    24. ^ Basmachi movement
    25. ^ Basmachi movement
    26. ^ The Evacuation of the Crimea was the end of major resistance to the Bolsheviks (apart from the Green Army revolts which occurred mostly in 1921-22), while the main phase ended on 25 October 1922. However, lower-scale revolts against the Bolsheviks continued in Central Asia and the Far East through the 1920s and 1930s. As a result, the earliest start date for the civil war is 7 November 1917 and the latest date for the end of the civil war being the 16 June 1923.
    27. ^ The Red Army peaked in October 1920 with 5,498,000: 2,587,000 in reserves, 391,000 in labor armies, 159,000 on the front and 1,780,000 drawing rations
    28. ^ 683,000 active
      340,000 reserve
    29. ^ Not always allied with White Army
    30. ^ Official allegiance to the Russian State
      Unofficial allegiance to the German Empire
    1. ^ Mawdsley, Evan (2007). The Russian Civil War. New York: Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781681770093.
    2. ^ Последние бои на Дальнем Востоке. М., Центрполиграф, 2005.
    3. ^ Erickson 1984, p. 763.
    4. ^ Belash, Victor & Belash, Aleksandr, Dorogi Nestora Makhno, p. 340
    5. ^ Damien Wright, Churchill's Secret War with Lenin: British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918–20, Solihull, UK, 2017, pp. 394, 526–528, 530–535; Clifford Kinvig, Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia 1918–1920, London 2006, ISBN 1-85285-477-4, p. 297; Timothy Winegard, The First World Oil War, University of Toronto Press (2016), p. 229
    6. ^ a b Smele 2016, p. 160.
    7. ^ Wright, Damien (2017). Churchill's Secret War with Lenin: British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918–20'. Solihull, UK: Helion and Company. pp. 490–492, 498–500, 504. ISBN 978-1911512103.; Kinvig 2006, pp. 289, 315; Winegard, Timothy (2016). The First World Oil War. University of Toronto Press. p. 208.
    8. ^ Eidintas, Žalys & Senn 1999, p. 30.