Shortly after the proclamation of Finland’s independence (December 6, 1917) and the recognition of the new state by Soviet Russia, France, Sweden and the German Empire (January 4, 1918), the Finnish diet proclaimed the country’s neutrality (January 8). However, Finland could not avoid a military conflict on its territory, the new state slipping rapidly into a civil war, a bloody conflict …

As the country descended into civil war between the Reds and pro-royalist Whites, the single standard issue uniform caused chaos until the Soviets restyled the workers- …

Reds were bolsheviks or communists if you like it better. White were forces trying to stop them from taking the power. White guardians (my own grandfather too) were led mainly by officers of Russian Tsar Army. Of course you could not be both, as they were enemies of each other. As you know, Reds won the civil war. What did the Reds and Greens mean in Russia? With the context …

Reds forces With peace established with Germany, the war continued within the boundaries of Russia. As Lenin attempted to gain control over the whole country, forces loyal to the Tsar or that were anti-communist gathered strength to oppose him. This created a three-year.

The Bolsheviks won because they possessed the heartland - Moscow/Petrograd, the rolling stock, the rails, industry, resources - including men - which the Whites lacked. A huge percentage of Russian industry and virtually all of the armaments industry was within the Bolshevik area of control. Logged.

The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война в России, tr. Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossii; 7 November 1917 — 16 June 1923) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the monarchy and the new republican government's failure to maintain stability, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future, resulting in the …

As a result, by the end of the civil war, the Reds were almost entirely Bolshevik. The Whites were far from being a unified force. They were, in practice, comprised of ad hoc groups opposed to both the Bolsheviks, and sometimes each other, and were outnumbered and overstretched thanks to controlling a smaller population over a huge area.

The Whites had several leaders - Yudenich, Kolchak, Deniken and Wrangel. All wanted glory for themselves. While trying to defeat the Reds, they were also often in …

The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921. During this time, the Bolsheviks faced massive opposition to their rule in the form of the White Armies, led by former officers of …

The White movement also known as the Whites, was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of insurrectionists both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II. The movement's …