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On July 4, 1918, in Omsk, the Provisional Siberian Government, headed by Pyotr Vologodsky, adopted the "Declaration of Independence of Siberia", canceled on November 3, 1918. Inside the Siberian Republic, there was a struggle between the liberal wing (Provisional Siberian Government) and the socialist wing of regionalism (Siberian Regional Duma ...
By August 1918 the Siberian Army had three corps of 2 or 3 four-regimental divisions each (23,147 infantrymen, 14,888 cavalrymen and 22,224 unarmed volunteers). At first the Siberian Army was a volunteer one, but it soon became obvious that in order to create a real army it was necessary to organize a program of conscription. The conscription ...
The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China to support White Russian forces and the Czechoslovak Legion against Soviet Russia and its allies during the Russian Civil War.
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions that began in 1918. The initial impetus behind the interventions was to secure munitions and supply depots from falling into the German Empire's hands, particularly after the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and to rescue the Allied forces that had become trapped within ...
The generals of the Siberian Army deferred to the Vologodskii government in Omsk, however, resulting in the marginalization of the Vladivostok regime. During September 1918, after the State Meeting in Ufa , the Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk) was transitioned into a new government, the Provisional All-Russian Government, known informally ...
From June to December 1918, the headquarters of the Siberian Army was the general headquarters for the entire White Movement of Siberia. In August 1918, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region in Arkhangelsk created troops of the Northern Region, sometimes referred to as the Northern Army (not to be confused with General Rodzyanko's ...
3rd Steppe Regiment (until June 1918) 15th Kurgan Siberian Rifle Regiment (July 1918 – May 1919) 4th Siberian Rifle Division (December 21, 1918 – March 20, 1920) 3rd Steppe Siberian Army Corps (May 1919 – October 12, 1919) 2nd Omsk Rifle Division (April – August 1920) 2nd Siberian Rifle Corps (August 23, 1920 – August 1922) Siberian ...
The seizure of power by the Bolshevik Party in Petrograd in the Russian Revolution of November 1917 was followed by the dispersal of the Russian Constituent Assembly early in the morning of January 19, 1918 (N.S.), a body which had been dominated by the elected representatives of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (PSR), directed by Victor Chernov.