The Russian Civil War was fought from 1917 to 1923 following the Bolshevik seizure of power in the October Revolution, pitting the Bolshevik Red Army against a fragmented coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces collectively known as the White movement, alongside nationalist, anarchist and foreign interventionist forces across the collapsing Russian Empire. Fighting spread across a vast and shifting set of fronts, from Siberia under Admiral Alexander Kolchak to southern Russia under Anton Denikin and later Pyotr Wrangel, complicated further by foreign intervention from Britain, France, the United States, Japan and others in support of White forces, and by a parallel Polish-Soviet War in 1919 to 1921. Leon Trotsky's organization of the Red Army and the Bolsheviks' control of Russia's industrial heartland and rail network proved decisive advantages, and by 1920 the main White armies had been defeated, with mopping-up operations against remaining resistance, including in Central Asia and the Far East, continuing into 1923. The war killed millions through combat, disease and famine, and its Bolshevik victory secured the survival of Soviet Russia and established the political order that led to the founding of the Soviet Union in 1922.
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CombatantsThe Bolshevik Red Army versus the anti-Bolshevik White movement, with foreign interventionist forces and various independence movements 1 OutcomeBolshevik victory; establishment of the Soviet Union across most of the former Russian Empire 1 Classification
Conflict Type Russian Civil War
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The Bolshevik Red Army, built by Trotsky, defeated the White armies in the 1917-1923 Russian Civil War
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The two largest combatants were the Red Army, fighting for the establishment of a Bolshevik-led socialist state headed by Vladimir Lenin, and the forces known as the White movement.
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The two largest combatants were the Red Army, fighting for the establishment of a Bolshevik-led socialist state headed by Vladimir Lenin, and the forces known as the White movement.
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The two largest combatants were the Red Army, fighting for the establishment of a Bolshevik-led socialist state headed by Vladimir Lenin, and the forces known as the White movement.
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The two largest combatants were the Red Army, fighting for the establishment of a Bolshevik-led socialist state headed by Vladimir Lenin, and the forces known as the White movement.
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The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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The Russian Civil War was fought from 1917 to 1923 following the Bolshevik seizure of power in the October Revolution, pitting the Bolshevik Red Army against a fragmented coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces collectively known as the White movement, alongside nationalist, anarchist and foreign interventionist forces across the collapsing Russian Empire.
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from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923
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It also saw use during the Russian Civil War, which followed the Revolution in 1917.
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98/K98 (carbine 98) in Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów in Warsaw and Fabryka Broni in Radom Romania: A few Infanteriegewehr 98 and Karabiner 98AZ rifles were obtained as reparations from Germany after WWI Russian SFSR: Used by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War Spain Vatican City: replaced the Remington Rolling Block rifles in 1911 and then replaced by the K31 in 1956 Vietnam Yugoslavia: Post-WWI, mostly converted to the M24B configuration.
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