Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1922. Following the success of the Russian Revolution, the new Russian (Bolshevik) government made peace with Germany at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ratified on March 6 1918. This negotiated peace was the only option because the Russian army was in a chaotic and undisciplined state when the Germans advanced in February 1918, although the old Russian army had been re-organized in January into the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Army".

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1918 - 1922 - Russian Revolution - Russia - Bolshevik - Germany - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - March 6 - Red Army

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This treaty galvanised a number of anti-Bolshevik groups inside and outside Russia to act against the new regime. For example, Winston Churchill declared that Bolshevism must be "strangled in its cradle".

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Winston Churchill - Bolshevism

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Most of the Civil War ended in 1920, but a notable resistance in certain areas continued until 1922 (e.g, Kronstadt Uprising, Tambov Rebellion, and the final resistance of the White movement in the Far East).

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Kronstadt Uprising - Tambov Rebellion - White movement - Far East

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The Soviet historiography traditionally didn't apply the qualifier "Russian" and used the term "Civil War and Military Intervention of 1917-1922". Accordingly, it included the Polish-Soviet War, resistance in Ukraine, as well as Basmachi resistance and foreign intervention in Central Asia.

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Historiography - Polish-Soviet War - Ukraine - Basmachi resistance - Central Asia

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