Russian Civil War

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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 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Cossack forces
Green armies
Red Army
Ukrainian nationalists
White Army
White movement
anarchist forces in Ukraine
foreign interventionist forces
cause Russian Revolution
surface form: 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 SFSR
surface form: 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 states
surface form: Baltic region

Caucasus
Central Asia
European Russia
Siberia
Ukraine
mainTheater former Russian Empire
opponent Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

anti-Bolshevik forces
precededBy Russian Revolution
surface form: February Revolution

Russian Revolution
surface form: 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

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this entity surface form: Russian Civil War operations
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this entity surface form: Civil War in Russia
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subject surface form: Andrei Grechko
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this entity surface form: Russian Civil War era
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