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Russian Civil War: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date June 1918 - 1920
Location Russia
Participants Bolshevik • France • Japan • Socialist Revolutionary Party • United Kingdom • United States • White Army

Photos

Vladimir Lenin
Treaties of Brest-Litovsk
A long line of Czechoslovakian soldiers in uniform stands at attention with rifles and bayonets along a street in Vladivostok, Russia, early twentieth century.
Nicholas II
American soldier in uniform stands with rifle at his shoulder, facing a small American flag on a pole, surrounded by wooden buildings and logs in a rural area.
Crimea
Leon Trotsky
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Key People

Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
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Boris Viktorovich Savinkov
Russian revolutionary
Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze
Russian military officer
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Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin
Russian military officer
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Anton Ivanovich Denikin
Russian general
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Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny
Soviet general and politician
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Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Russian officer
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Nikolay Yudenich
Russian general
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Rüdiger, count von der Goltz
German army officer
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev
Russian general
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Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron Wrangel
Russian general
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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak
Russian naval officer

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