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Russian Civil War: Bolshevik Revolution
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Although the Russian Civil War is a separate topic and not dealt with directly in this text, some introduction is appropriate because the war evolved directly from the circumstances of the Russian Revolution. No specific date can be set forth for the beginning of the war, but it generally began during the summer of
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The most decisive chapter of the Russian Revolution, the civil war raged between October 1917 and 1922. The traumatic experience of civil war served as a defining moment for the new Soviet state by embedding itself into both the people's and the state's outlook and behavior.
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The Russian Civil War is seen by many scholars as a formative period that militarized the Bolshevik Party and shaped future Communist policy. Many of the methods practiced by the party during the civil war were applied again by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the late 1920s, when he launched an ambitious and brutally enforced program to industrialize the USSR and collectivize agriculture.
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Russian Civil War is an historical simulation of the military and political conflict of 1918-1921 which abolished the Czarist regime and created the foundation for the Soviet Union. The basic game is designed for 3-6 players, each of whom controls one or more factions among the revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, nationalist and interventionist forces which participated in the bloody chaotic struggle to determine Russia's future.
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The Russian Civil War (1917-1922/3) was a multi-sided conflict that took place within the borders of the former Russian Empire following the collapse of the Russian provisional government and the Bolshevik takeover of Petrograd (St. Petersburg).
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Among the early victims of the civil war, which may be considered to have begun in earnest in June 1918, were the former imperial family. Nicholas II, his wife, and his children had been moved in August 1917 to Tobolsk and in the spring of 1918 to Yekaterinburg. With the development of anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia, the local soviet feared that Nicholas might be liberated. In the night of July 16-17, 1918, all the members of the family were taken to the cellar of their prison house and shot.
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