Russian Civil War

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armed conflict civil war revolutionary war

The Russian Civil War was a multi-sided conflict from 1917 to the early 1920s between the Bolshevik Red Army and various anti-Bolshevik and nationalist forces that determined the establishment and consolidation of Soviet power.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	armed conflict → civil war → revolutionary war →
belligerent	Bolsheviks → Cossack forces → Green armies → Red Army → Ukrainian nationalists → White Army → White movement → anarchist forces in Ukraine → foreign interventionist forces →
cause	October Revolution → collapse of Russian Empire → power struggle after 1917 revolutions →
commander	Alexander Kolchak → Anton Denikin → Leon Trotsky → Mikhail Frunze → Nestor Makhno → Pyotr Wrangel → Vladimir Lenin →
conflictType	multi-sided conflict →
consequence	consolidation of one-party rule by Bolsheviks → economic devastation in Russia → large-scale refugee movements → massive population losses →
countryInvolved	Russian Empire → Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →
endDate	1923 →
followedBy	Soviet consolidation of power in the 1920s → formation of the USSR in 1922 →
ideologicalConflict	Bolshevism vs anti-Bolshevism → socialism vs monarchism and liberalism →
location	Baltic region → Caucasus → Central Asia → European Russia → Siberia → Ukraine →
mainTheater	former Russian Empire →
opponent	Bolsheviks → anti-Bolshevik forces →
precededBy	February Revolution → October Revolution →
result	Bolshevik victory → defeat of White movement → establishment of Soviet power → formation of the Soviet Union → reconquest of most territories of former Russian Empire by Bolsheviks →
significantEvent	Denikin offensive on Moscow → Kolchak offensive in Siberia → Kronstadt rebellion → Polish–Soviet War → Red Terror → Tambov Rebellion → Treaty of Brest-Litovsk → White Terror →
startDate	1917 →

Referenced by (116)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
5th Army (Red Army) → Anton Denikin → Boris Shaposhnikov → Czechoslovak Legion → Denikin offensive on Moscow → Don Army → Don Cossack forces → Georgy Zhukov → Green armies → Ice March → Ivan Bagramyan → Ivan Konev → Kolchak government → Kolchak offensive in Siberia → Konstantin Chernenko → Kuban Cossack forces → Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → Mikhail Shumilov → Nestor Makhno → Nikolai Yudenich → Northwestern Army → Orenburg Cossack forces → Pavel Batov → Perekop–Chongar offensive (1920) → Pyotr Wrangel → RKKA → Red Army → Rodion Malinovsky → Roman von Ungern-Sternberg → Semyon Budyonny → Siberian Army → Southern Front of the Russian Civil War → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Black Sea Fleet → Soviet armed forces → Stanislav Kosior → Ural Cossack forces → Vasily Chuikov → Volunteer Army → White Army → White Guard movement → White movement → Wrangel government in Crimea →	conflict
Alexander Kolchak → Anastas Mikoyan → Anton Denikin → Felix Dzerzhinsky → Grigory Zinoviev → Kliment Voroshilov → Lavr Kornilov → Mikhail Alekseyev → Mikhail Frunze → Mikhail Kalinin → Pyotr Krasnov → Semyon Budyonny → Semyon Timoshenko → Sergei Kamenev → Sergei Kirov → Vyacheslav Molotov → Yakov Sverdlov →	participantIn
Antonovshchina → Denikin offensive on Moscow → Red Terror → Southern Front of the Russian Civil War → Tambov Rebellion → White Guard movement → White Terror (Russian Civil War) → White movement →	partOf
Cheka → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Lazar Kaganovich → Mikhail Kirponos → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Nikolai Bukharin →	participatedIn
5th Army (Red Army) ("Russian Civil War period") → Socialist Revolutionary Party →	activeDuring
Communist Party of the Soviet Union → People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR →	associatedWithEvent
Russian Revolution → Storming of the Winter Palace →	followedBy
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → Smolensk Governorate ("Russian Revolution and Civil War era") →	historicalEra
New Economic Policy → Soviet literature →	influencedBy
Terrorism and Communism → The Decision to Intervene →	mainSubject
Joseph Stalin → Sergei Kamenev →	militaryConflict
Red Terror → Simbirsk, Russian Empire →	significantEvent
Kolchak offensive in Siberia → Siberian intervention in the Russian Civil War →	timePeriod
Airco DH.4 → Mosin–Nagant rifle →	usedInConflict
White movement →	activeInConflict
People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR →	appliesToPeriod
Perekop–Chongar offensive (1920) ("Battles of the Russian Civil War") →	category
Wrangel government in Crimea →	hasCause
Russian Revolution →	hasEffect
Siberia →	historicalEvent
People's Commissar for Nationalities →	historicalPeriod
Order of the Red Banner →	historicalPeriodOfUse
War Communism →	implementedDuring
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk →	influenced
Tsaritsyn →	involvedInEvent
Kronstadt rebellion →	locatedInTimePeriod
Soviet military officers →	notableConflictParticipation
Vladimir Lenin →	notableEvent
Polish–Romanian alliance →	relatedConflict
Cossacks →	roleIn
Doctor Zhivago →	settingPeriod
My Life →	subject
Terrorism and Communism →	timePeriodDescribed
Flag of the Russian SFSR →	usedDuring
Soviet Ukraine →	wasBattlegroundIn
Terrorism and Communism →	writtenInContextOf