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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.
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 ...
In summer and autumn 1918, the Red Army had been defeated in the Second Kuban Campaign and Ekaterinodar, Novorossiysk, Maykop, Armavir and Stavropol were lost. Red Army commander Ivan Sorokin rebelled against the Revolutionary Military Council of the North Caucasus, shot several of its members and fled, but was arrested and shot without trial by a regiment commander of the Taman army.
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 .
The Chapan rebellion was one of the largest peasant uprising against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.Taking place in March-April 1919, the uprising covered the territory of Syzran, Sengileevsky, Karsunsky districts of Simbirsk and the Stavropol and Melekessky districts of Samara.
Foremen of Izhevsk weapon factory, 1880s. Izhevsk and Votkinsk were important centers of military production in Russian Empire.Workers of the state military factories and members of their families were about 73-74% of the cities' populations, and many families had an old tradition of working in military industry.
The battle was also at a critical point in the Civil War as the Whites had also been getting closer to Moscow and the Russian State was at its peak. Using the new Regional Government of Northwest Russia as a base, the newly formed Northwestern Army had launched an attack from Pskov and drove north to Petrograd. The White Army saw a string of ...