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This is considered one of the largest massacres in the Civil War. [2] A 25-ruble banknote of the Crimean Regional Government. Between 56,000 and 150,000 of the Whites were murdered as part of the Red Terror, organized by Béla Kun's Crimean Revolutionary Committee. The figures related to the massacre in Crimea remain contested.
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 Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война в России, romanized: Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossii) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
English: Map of Russia including internationally-unrecognized illegally-annexed Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation, with Crimea in red. Русский: Карта Республики Крым на карте России, 2022
Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920: The Defeat of the Whites, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Brent Mueggenberg. The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917 - 1945, Jefferson: McFarland, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4766-7948-8; Evan Mawdsley. The Russian Civil War, New York: Pegasus, 2005, ISBN 978-1-933648-15-6; Ukrainian Armies 1914-55.
Moscow says attack on Crimea using 28 drones was repelled overnight Ukraine war – live: Russia’s Kharkiv troop levels close to Soviet-era as 900 tanks, 100,000 soldiers seen Skip to main content
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the military and political situation in Crimea was chaotic, as in much of Russia. During the ensuing Russian Civil War, Crimea changed hands numerous times and was for a time a stronghold of the anti-Bolshevik White Army.
Following Russia's 1917 October Revolution, an ethnic Tatar government proclaimed the Crimean People's Republic.The republic was soon overrun by Bolshevik forces in early 1918 who established the Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic and then by the forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic with a military assistance from the German Empire in the Crimean Offensive at the end of April 1918.