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Native name: Красный террор (post-1918 orthography)Красный терроръ (pre-1918 orthography) Date: August 1918 – February 1922: Location: Soviet Russia
The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution in early 1917, in the midst of World War I. With the German Empire dealing major defeats on the war front, and increasing logistical problems in the rear causing shortages of bread and grain, the Russian Army was steadily losing morale, with large scale mutiny looming. [ 1 ]
The purge had a significant effect on German decision making in World War II: many German generals opposed an invasion of Russia, but Hitler disagreed, arguing that the Red Army was less effective after its intellectual leadership had been eliminated in the purge.
They were convinced that the purpose of the Whites' military actions was not a war against some broad masses or social classes, but a war with a small party that had seized power in Russia and used the socio-economic and political situation, as well as market conditions, in their own interests to achieve the goal, as well as manipulating the ...
1–2 million refugees outside Russia. The Russian Civil War[ a ] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, [a] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [b] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [5] [6] Bolshevik coup, [6] or Bolshevik revolution, [7] [8] was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of ...
Battle of Petrograd. Coordinates: 60°03′0″N 31°45′0″E. Battle of Petrograd. Part of the Russian Civil War, Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence and Heimosodat. A picture of a Young Bolshevik soldier in Petrograd. Date. 28 September – 14 November 1919. (1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov [a] (3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1885 – 16 March 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1918 until his death in 1919, and as Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (head of state of the Russian SFSR) from 1917 until his death.