Friday, March 22, 2024

The Russian Civil War 1917-1922

From 1917-1922 an incredible bloodletting took place as the former Tsarist Imperial Russian Empire broke apart and the new countries of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the USSR were left to rise from its ashes. Reds vs Whites with Cossacks, mercenaries, anarchist peasant armies, Tsarist remnants and foreign interventionists thrown in and mixed together formed one of the strangest and most interesting periods in modern military history.

The Imperial Russian army of 1914

With 14 million peasant drafts lead by an officer corps one percent of that size, the Russian army was short of every single...

The Southern White Army 1917-1920

Under the protection of the Cossacks and aided by a corps of Interventionists, the AFSR White Army of the South fought for three bloody...

Russian Women’s Legion of Death

The organization, war record, and short-lived history of the battalions of the Russian Women's Legion of Death that fought in World War One and...

Interventionists in the Far East

Japanese troops, assisted by the British, French and Americans, occupied the Russian far east for several years during the Russian Civil War. The Far...