Russian Civil War

Jan 1918

Red Army est

Mar 1918

• Treaty of Brest-Litovks

• British troops arrive

Spring 1918

Opps from Cossacks defeated

April 1918

• Kornilov’s army defeated

• Foreign intervention support Bol opponents

May 1918

• Czech Legion

  • Mostly of Czechs fought for Allies @ Eastern front in WW1

  • Wanted to leave Valdivostok but stopped; so rose against Bol

• Reds: Conscription introduced

Jun 1918

Assassination of Romanovs

Aug 1918

• Trotsky starts executing deserters

• USA sends troops to aid Whites & est. anti-Bol gov

Sep 1918

Opps gov est @Ufa

Nov 1918

Admiral Kolchak (former commander of R Black Sea Fleet) = Supreme Rule of White Armies

Dec 1918

F army lands at Odessa

Feb 1919

Denikin (ex-tsarist general who supported Kornilov) assumed command of White forces in south-east

Mar 1919

Kolchak’s forces cross the Urals, but driven back by Red Army

Apr 1919

French evacuate Odessa

Jun 1919

Denikin & south army take Kharkov

Jul 1919

Denikin takes Tsaritsyn

Sep 1919

Allies evacuate Archangel

Oct 1919

• Red Army starts to score victories:

  • Defeats Denikin @ Orel

  • Defeated Yudenich (ex-tsarist general who fought in RJ war) @ Petrograd

Jan 1920

Kolchak resigns

Feb 1920

Kolchak captured & executed by Bolsheviks

Apr 1920

• Polish forces attack R

• Reds counter-attack, but pushed back

• Denikin succeeded by Wrangel (served in RJ & WW1)

Oct 1920

Russo-Polish armistice

Nov 1921

White troops under Wrangel driven from southern Russia