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Russian civil war

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

Baku Soviet Commune (November 1917-31 July 1918)

Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (13 November 1917-30 December 1922)

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)

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Tashkent Soviet

Soviet Union



Left SR

Green armies (1919-1920)

Russia White Movement



Newly emerged republics


Allied Intervention

Pro-German armies



Green armies (1920)

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 Lev Kamenev
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Yakov Sverdlov 
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Jukums Vācietis
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