Russian Civil War
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Yudenich
15,000 men
Reached outskirts of Petrograd
Denikin
150,000 - large amount of Don Cossacks
former volunteer army led by Kornilov
Came within 320km of Moscow
Denikin killed and replaced by Wrangel
Komuch
Mainly SRs + Czech POWs
Based at Samara
Joined with Omsk but ended in fighting
Omsk
140,000
Rightists led by Admiral Kolchak
Weakened by internal divisions with SRs
Kolchak captured and shot in 1920
Makhno
Peasant armies
Guerilla War tactics
Cause of Russo-Polish war
Pilsudskli unhappy with border of the Ourzon line
Russo-Polish war
April 1920
Seesaw affair as huge polish advance pushed back by powerful Red Army counter attack
Russo-Polish Outcome
Treaty of Riga - Russia ceded more than 30,000 square miles on its border to Poland.
Trotsky’s Army
Dual Command of ex-Tsarist Officers and Political Commissars
Mass Conscription
May 1918
Punishment for Desertion
Execution
Red Army Numbers
1918 - 1 million
1921 - over 5 million
Desertion rate in 1919
250,000 a month
Disease in 1920
Nearly 1/3 of its men contracted typhus
Bolshevik Territory
70 million people(20 million in White areas)
Bolshevik Ammunition
2.5 million rifles 12,000 artillery pieces 28 million shells