Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
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| Eastern Front | |
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| Part of the | |
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Bolshevik victory
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Czechoslovakia
Poland
Romania
China
Green Ukraine
Buryat-Mongolia
Mongolia
Left SRs
(After March 1918)
Anarchists
Poland
Romania
China
Green UkraineBuryat-Mongolia
Mongolia
Left SRs(After March 1918)
Anarchists
: 5,000
Red Army: 5 Field Armies
The
Aleksandr Kolchak
. The White Army collapsed in the East as well as on other fronts throughout the winter of 1919/1920. Smaller-scale conflicts in the region went on until as late as 1923.
Chronology of Revolts and Offensives
In May 1918, soldiers of the
executed to prevent their release by the Whites. By the end of August, Vladivostok was in Czechoslovak hands.[2]
On January 24, the Red 4th army captured Uralsk.
Provisional White governments
In the power vacuum left by the departure of the Bolsheviks multiple
Provisional Siberian Government. KOMUCH quickly ordered a general mobilisation, but its troops were small and badly trained. The Czechoslovaks allied with KOMUCH and advanced to the west, taking Kazan, where they captured the tsar's gold reserves which had been moved east for safekeeping.[3]
In
Lenin
had called upon factory workers to be dispatched to the Eastern Front.
See also
Notes
References
- Bullock, David (2008). The Russian Civil War 1918–22. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-271-4.