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Civil War in Russia

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.
Date November 7, 1917 – October 25, 1922/June 16, 1923(Revolt against Soviet rule continued in Central Asia until 1934)
Location Former Russian Empire, Mongolia, Tuva, Persia
Result Victory for the Red Army in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Tuva, and Mongolia;
Victory for pro-independence movements in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
Territorial
changes
Establishment of the Soviet Union; Independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
Belligerents

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian SFSR (7 November 1917–30 December 1922)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (20 November 1917–30 December 1922)



Left SR

Green armies (1919–1920)



Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine (1918–1920)

Russia White Movement



Newly emerged republics


Allied Intervention

Pro-German armies



Green armies (1920)



Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine (1920–1921)

Other Factions


Various anti-soviet factions also fought among each other.
Commanders and leaders

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Vladimir Lenin
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Leon Trotsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Jukums Vācietis
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Sergey Kamenev


Nestor Makhno
Russia Alexander Kolchak Executed
Russia Lavr Kornilov 
Russia Anton Denikin
Russia Nikolai Yudenich
Russia Pyotr Wrangel
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

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