Russian Civil War
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Part of World War I
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Date |
7 November (25 October) 1917 – October 1922 (Pro-communist forces continue until at least 1925)
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Location |
Russian Empire, Mongolia, Tuva, Persia
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Result |
Disputed:
- Victory of the White Movement in Russia and her dominions of Finland, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states
- Victory for Red Army in Central Asia, Tuva, and Mongolia
- Restoration of the Russian Empire with Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia as the Tsar of all Russia
- Exile of Vladimir Lenin
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Belligerents |
Russian SFSR
Revolutionary Insurrectionist Army of Ukraine Left SR Green Armies
| White Movement
- Provisional All-Russian Government
- Armed Forces of South Russia
- Siberian Army
- Army of Komuch
- Members of the Constituent Assembly
- Autonomous Siberia
- Don Cossacks
- Kuban Cossacks
- Finland
Anti-Communist Independence Movements:
Pro-German armies
- Germany
- Landeswehr
- Freikorps
- West Russian Volunteer Army
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Commanders and leaders |
Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky † Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Nestor Makhno
| Grand Duchess Xenia Alexander Kolchak Lavr Kornilov Anton Denikin Pyotr Wrangel Nikolai Yudenich
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Strength |
3,000,000
| 2,400,000 White Russians
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Casualties and losses |
1,212,824 casualties (records incomplete)
| At least 1,500,000
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