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The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [note 3] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is regarded as the first European war of ...
The Red Army invasion of Georgia (12 February – 17 March 1921), also known as the Georgian–Soviet War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia, [5] was a military campaign by the Russian Soviet Red Army aimed at overthrowing the Social Democratic government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG) and installing a Bolshevik regime (Communist Party of Georgia) in the country.
Democratic Republic of Georgia: First Republic of Armenia: Inconclusive With the intervention of Great Britain, a truce was concluded between Armenia and Georgia. 1918-1920 Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920) First Ossetian uprising [11] Second Ossetian uprising; Third Ossetian uprising [12] Democratic Republic of Georgia: Ossetian ...
Map of changes in the territory of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918–1921. In the north, Georgia was bordered by various Russian Civil War polities until Bolshevik power was established in the North Caucasus in the spring of 1920. The international border between Soviet Russia and Georgia was regulated by the 1920 Moscow Treaty.
Democratic Republic of Georgia Russian SFSR Azerbaijan SSR: Victory Soviet offensive halted; 1921 Battle of Tbilisi Tbilisi, Georgia: Red Army invasion of Georgia: Democratic Republic of Georgia Russian SFSR: Defeat 1921 Battle of Osiauri Khashuri Municipality, Shida Kartli, Georgia: Red Army invasion of Georgia: Democratic Republic of Georgia
Russian–Georgian war may refer to: Red Army invasion of Georgia , 1921, also known as the Soviet—Georgian War 2008 South Ossetia War , also known as the Russo–Georgian War
Generally, however, the world largely neglected the violent Soviet conquest of Georgia. On 27 March 1921, the exiled Georgian government issued an appeal from their temporary offices in Istanbul to "all socialist parties and workers' organizations" of the world, protesting against the invasion of Georgia. The appeal was unheeded, though.
Georgia was dragged into wars against Armenia and remnants of the Ottoman Empire, while the rapid spread of ideas of revolutionary socialism in rural regions accounted for some Soviet-backed peasants' revolts in Racha, Samegrelo and Dusheti. In 1921, the crisis came to a head. The 11th Red Army invaded Georgia from the south and headed to Tbilisi.