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The revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion comprised the armed actions of the Czechoslovak Legion in the Russian Civil War against Bolshevik authorities, beginning in May 1918 and persisting through evacuation of the Legion from Siberia to Europe in 1920.
The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Äeskoslovenské legie; Slovak: Äeskoslovenské légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and Slovaks [1] fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I and the White Army during the Russian Civil War until November 1919.
More than 4,000 Czechoslovak soldiers died fighting during World War I and in the Russian Civil War. An unknown number of troops went missing or deserted the Legion, making a hazardous stroll towards Czechoslovakia through the front lines or joining the Czechoslovak communists.
The Czechoslovak Legion was a military formation of Czechs, Slovaks, exiles, and former prisoners of war organized in Russia in 1914 to fight in the First World War. The article describes the history of the Czechoslovak military formations in Russia during the First World War and the Russian Civil War. Table of contents.
In Russian Civil War: Seeds of conflict. A further factor was the Czechoslovak Legion, composed of Czech and Slovak deserters from the Austro-Hungarian army, whom previous Russian governments had allowed to form their own units.
Tens of thousands of Czechoslovak Legionnaires significantly intervened in the battles of World War I on the Eastern Front. On top of that, they distinguished themselves during the Russian Civil War between the Bolsheviks and the White Armies .
After World War I broke out in 1914, thousands of Czechs and Slovaks living inside Russia heeded Masaryk’s call to fight alongside Russians against the Central Powers, which included...