Russian Civil War

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 again 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 SFSR (7 November 1917-30 December 1922)

Baku Soviet Commune (November 1917-31 July 1918)

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

Odessa Soviet Republic (5 January 1918-7 February 1920)

Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic (14 January-9 April 1918; 5 May-September 1919)

Black Sea Soviet Republic (10 March 1918-27 March 1920)

Kuban Soviet Republic (13 April 1918-11 January 1919)

Volga German Commune (19 October 1918-30 December 1922)

Karelian Workers' Commune (7 June 1920-30 December 1922)

Galician Soviet Republic (8 July-23 September 1920)

Green armies (1919-1920)

Including

Orenburg Cossack Host (8 November 1917-7 February 1921)
Don Republic (2 December 1917-8 January 1920)
Siberia (7 December 1917-4 November 1918)
Kuban People's Republic (28 January-14 March 1918; 17 August 1918-3 May 1920)
Komuch (8 June-23 September 1918)
Ural Provisional Provincial Government (VOPU) (25 July-10 November 1918)
Northern Army (2 August 1918-13 March 1920)
Provisional All-Russian Government (23 September 1918-16 November 1920)
Regional Government of Northwest Russia (10 October 1918-5 December 1919)
Armed Forces of South Russia (18 November 1918-17 November 1920)
Pskov Voyevodship (subordinated to Regional Government of Northwest Russia) (25 May-26 August 1919)
West Russian Volunteer Army (17 May-2 December 1919)