Russian Civil War | ||||||||||
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Clockwise from top: Soldiers of the Don Army in 1919; a White infantry division in March 1920; soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army; Leon Trotsky in 1918; hanging of workers in Yekaterinoslav by the Austro-Hungarian Army, April 1918. |
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Belligerents | ||||||||||
Russian SFSR (7 November 1917–30 December 1922) Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (20 November 1917–30 December 1922) Green armies (1919–1920) Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine (1918–1920) |
Including
Including
Allied Intervention Including
Pro-German armies Including
Green armies (1920) Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine (1920–1921) |
Other Factions Including
Various anti-soviet factions also fought among each other. |
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Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
Vladimir Lenin Nestor Makhno |
Alexander Kolchak Lavr Kornilov † Anton Denikin Nikolai Yudenich Pyotr Wrangel |
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Strength | ||||||||||
3,000,000 103,000 Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine |
2,400,000 White Russians | |||||||||
Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
~1,500,000 259,213 killed 60,059 missing 616,605 died of disease/wounds 3,878 died in accidents/suicides 548,857 wounded/frostbitten |
At least 1,500,000 | |||||||||
Total of 5,000,000–9,000,000 deaths |