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5 unusual facts about Russian Civil War


Aboyeur

After two seasons in Russia he disappeared during the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

Alexander Atabekian

Upon the dissolution of the army following the Russian Civil War, he again met Kropotkin and became an active anarchist in Moscow after the February Revolution.

Alexei Sorokin

His father a veteran invalid of the Russian Civil War died in 1933 and his brother Seraphim was killed in the battle for Moscow in 1941.

French battleship France

After the war, France and Paris supported Allied forces in the Black Sea in 1919 during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Victor Vacquier

In 1920, Vacquier escaped the Russian Civil War with his family, taking a horse-drawn sleigh across the ice of the Gulf of Finland to Helsinki, then moving to France and (in 1923) to the United States.


Alexander Shliapnikov

In December 1918 Shlyapnikov was replaced as Commissar of Labor by Vasili Schmidt and then served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caspian-Caucasian Front in the Russian Civil War.

Arthur L. Bristol

Bristol then commanded Breckinridge (DD-148) and Overton (DD-239) in succession, serving in the latter during that ship's operations in the Black Sea during the capitulation of White Russian forces to the Bolsheviks in November 1920.

Bundism

Bundism was an important component of the social democratic movement in the Russian empire until the Russian Revolution of 1917; the Bundists initially opposed the October Revolution, but ended up supporting it due to the anti-Jewish pogroms by the White Army during the Russian Civil War.

Chapayevka River

In 1925 it was renamed Chapayevka in honor of the Russian Civil War Red hero Vasily Chapayev.

Franciszek Żwirko

After the corps was disbanded in 1918, he enlisted in Gen. Anton Denikin's Volunteer Army and fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Iona Yakir

In October 1918, he served as a member of the Revolutionary Council of the 8th army in the Southern Front and simultaneously commanded the Southern Front's several key formations in operations against the Don Cossacks of Pyotr Krasnov.

Isaac Don Levine

He would return to Russia in the early 1920s to cover the Civil War for The Chicago Daily News.

James Ira Thomas Jones

After the end of hostilities, Jones volunteered to fight with the White movement against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War and was posted to the Archangel front but saw no further air combat.

Konstantin Trenyov

Konstantin Andreevich Trenyov (Константи′н Андре′евич Тренё′в, May 21 (June 2) 1876, Baksheevka, Kharkiv, Russian Empire, now Ukraine - May 19, 1945, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian, Soviet playwright and author, USSR State Prize laureate (1941), best known for his Russian Civil War history drama Lyubov Yarovaya (1926).

Leontius of Tsarevo

Saint Leontius of Tsarevo (died June 23, 1919) was a bishop of Petrovsk killed during the Russian Civil War.

Lev Lunts

He started his writing career at the age of 18, at the time of the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

Minay Shmyryov

At first a quartermaster for the Red Army in battles against the White Guard during the Russian Civil War, Shmyryov became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1920, but returned home the same year after falling ill during the wartime epidemic of typhus, and was appointed to head a local unit tasked with the struggle against "lawlessness" from 1920 to 1923.

Olšany Cemetery

Radola Gajda (1892–1948), military officer (and eventually general) with the Czechoslovak Legions in World War I and the Russian Civil War; later one of the founders of the fascist (yet anti-German) National Fascist Community and member of the Czechoslovakian Parliament

Paul Roudakoff

A morganatic descendant of Catherine the Great, he was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after his father, General, also named Paul Roudakoff, was wounded in battle, and his mother died of typhus five days later.

Peter Berngardovich Struve

With the Russian Civil War raging and his life in danger Struve had to flee; and after a three-month journey arrived in Finland, where he negotiated with Gen. Nikolai Yudenich and the Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim before leaving for Western Europe.

Revolutions of 1917–23

The ascendant communist party soon withdrew from war with Imperial Germany on the Eastern Front and then battled its political rivals in the Russian Civil War, including invading forces from the Allied Powers.

Sandro Shanshiashvili

At last, in 1930, he achieved fame throughout the Soviet Union with Anzor, an adapted translation into a Caucasian setting of Vsevolod Ivanov’s civil-war play Armoured Train 14-69.

Soviet Naval Aviation

They participated in the Russian Civil War, cooperating with the ships and the army during the combats at Petrograd, on the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Volga, the Kama River, Northern Dvina and on the Lake Onega.

Tolbo

The lake was the site of the Battle of Tolbo Lake (1921) during the Russian Civil War where Bolsheviks and Mongolian allies defeated an army of White Russians.

Yevgeny Matveyev

Yevgeny Matveyev was born in the village of Novoukrainka in the Mykolaiv Governorate of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) to father Semyon Kalinovich Matveyev, a Red Army serviceman was stationed in the region at the end of the Russian Civil War, and mother Nadezhda Fyodorovna Kovalenko, a local peasant woman.

Zinoviev letter

--somebody needs to examine this book if they get a chance.--> Another 2006 book on spycraft attributes authorship to Vladimir Orlov (1882–1941), a former aide to Baron Wrangel during the Russian Civil War.


see also

Basmachi movement

After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 and the Russian Civil War began, Turkestani Muslim political movements attempted to cooperate with the Bolshevik Tashkent Soviet, forming the Kokand Autonomous Government in the Ferghana Valley.

Budenovka

Budenovka became part of history as Red Army cavalry men wearing budennovkas became an iconic cultural image from the Russian civil war, together with tachankas, the Nagant revolver or Mauser C96, Maxim gun and rebelling sailors with ammo belts slung over their chests.

Eugene Miller

Yevgeny Miller (1867–1939), Russian general, leader of White movement during Russian Civil War

Krasnov

Pyotr Krasnov (1869-1947) Lieutenant-general and leading member of the White movement during the Russian Civil War.

Revolt of Czechoslovak Legion

Hearing about the creation of an independent Czechoslovakia, legionnaries began to ask why they had to fight in the Russian civil war.