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The civil war had a devastating impact on the Russian economy. A black market emerged in Russia, despite the threat of martial law against profiteering. The ruble collapsed, with barter increasingly replacing money as a medium of exchange [ 197 ] and, by 1921, heavy industry output had fallen to 20% of 1913 levels. 90% of wages were paid with ...
Muscovite Civil War: Vasily II burned Galich. 16 March: Muscovite Civil War: The army of Yury Dmitrievich defeated the army of Vasily II. The latter fled to Nizhny Novgorod. 1 April: Muscovite Civil War: Yury arrived in Moscow and again declared himself the Grand Prince. 5 July: Yury died. His oldest son Vasily the Squint, succeeded him as ...
At the end of 1918, the situation on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War was unclear. The forces of the Eastern White Movement tried to advance in two directions simultaneously: on the one hand towards the North-West to connect with the Northern Russia Front, on the other hand towards the South-West to connect with the Southern Russia Front and the troops of Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Battles of the Russian Civil War in 1918 (3 C, 21 P) Battles of the Russian Civil War in 1919 (2 C, 3 P)
The Malleson Mission was a British military intervention in Central Asia during the Russian Civil War, aimed at countering the spread of Bolshevism and protecting British interests in India. Led by Major General Wilfrid Malleson , [ 12 ] the mission began in 1918 with the deployment of British Indian Army troops to the city of Meshed in Persia ...
The siege of Perekop, also known as the Perekop-Chongar Operation, was a battle of the Southern Front in the Russian Civil War from 7 to 17 November 1920. The White movement's stronghold on the Crimean Peninsula was protected by the Chongar fortification system along the strategic Isthmus of Perekop and the Syvash, from which the Crimean Corps under General Yakov Slashchov repelled several Red ...
The Evacuation of Novorossiysk (Новороссийская эвакуация) or the Novorossiysk Catastrophe (Новороссийская катастрофа) was the evacuation of the White Armed Forces of South Russia and refugees from Novorossiysk in March 1920, during the Russian Civil War, in which thousands of officers, soldiers and Cossacks of the White Army and civilians were ...
Therefore, the term is often used as just another English name for the Red Army in reference to the times of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War. In Petrograd, the head of the Red Guards (30,000 personnel) was Konstantin Yurenev. At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian Red Guards had 200,000 personnel. After the revolution ...