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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.
Georges Clemenceau, the prime minister of France who decided to intervene militarily in the Russian Civil War on behalf of the anti-Bolshevik forces, partly for economic reasons. On 23 December 1917, the British and French governments had divided the region into zones of operations: Crimea , Donbas , and Ukraine remained on the French side. [ 8 ]
Battles of the Russian Civil War involving France (2 P) Pages in category "French involvement in the Russian Civil War" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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 ...
Russian Civil War: An anti-Bolshevik government, the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, was established in Samara under the protection of the Czecho-Slovak Legions 28 June A decree by the Central Executive Committee made war communism , under which all industry and food distribution was nationalized, the economic policy of the ...
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 Russian Empire had been in a mixed situation in the early stages of the war. While losing to the German Empire they had some victories against the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. However, by 1917 Russia was on its back foot with Germany and Austria having lost Poland, Lithuania and parts of West Belarus. Even with the entry of Romania ...
In 1994, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe established the Minsk Group under the auspices of France, Russia and the United States, with the aim of negotiating a ceasefire. [30] A Russian-backed truce was subsequently approved in May of that year, though Aliyev rejected a plan to station 18,000 Russian peacekeepers in the ...