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The Russian Civil War of 1917–1921, a cataclysmic series of overlapping conflicts, was a pivotal event in modern history. It was the Bolshevik victory in this bloody struggle, not the skirmishes on the streets of Petrograd and Moscow in October 1917, which secured the victory of Soviet Communism and provided its legitimacy for seventy years of rule. This book traces the clash between the ‘Reds’ of the Moscow-based Soviet regime and the ‘Whites’, the militaristic, counter-revolutionary governments which were established around the periphery of Russia and aided by Allied interventionists. In particular, it details the epic history of the White movement in Siberia, and the fortunes of its leader, Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak. Using a wide range of contemporary sources, Jonathan Smele examines Kolchak’s political and military record, and concludes that the White defeat resulted as much from the harsh facts of Siberian economy and geography as from failures of White policy and leadership.
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Russian Civil War and Allied Intervention - The Russian Civil War continues. The Allies for various reasons, including keeping Russia in the war and the fear of world communism, intervene in the struggle. Troops and supplies are later sent to support the White Armies (commanded by Czarist officers) fighting the Reds in the Arctic, the Ukraine, Caucasus and Siberia. The anti-Bolshevist forces include the 'Czechoslovak Legion', made up of deserters and ex-prisoners of war from the Austro-Hungarian army which fights its way across Siberia and later joins the Allies in the west. The war ends in 1920 in the Bolsheviks favour, and by then a number of major warships on both sides have been lost.
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The RCW taught the Communists [and Russians in general] to fear war and to anticipate attack. It is almost impossible to overstate how bad this war and its aftermath were for the ordinary denizen of Eastern Europe. It ... taught the people of Western Europe and America how scary the Armed Working Class could be. Hence, perhaps, the rise of Fascism. As Grenzewolf says, therefore, the formative event of the twentieth century, from which so much extra unpleasantness would flow.
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The Russian Civil War had a very bad result for agriculture .... Farm produced only 37 % of the normal production. Number of horses fell from 35 million (in 1916) to 24 million (in 1920). The number of cattle also became less, from 58 million to 37 million.
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The lavish production quality of Soldier Emperor meets the Russian Civil War in this newest game by William ariego ("Defiant Russia"). Up to five players take the roles of the different factions striving to control Russia after the Tsar's fall. 120 decadently thick tiles, one 22x34-inch map of the Russia
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The civil war shattered industrial production: total industrial output fell to 18 percent of its already extremely low pre-war levels. In 1920 production of pig iron was a mere 2.4 percent of its pre-war figure, the corresponding figure for coal was 27 percent, for sugar 6.7 percent, for electrical engineering machinery 5.4 percent and for cotton goods 5.1 percent. [110]
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