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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.

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The Siberian White Army 1918-1923

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The Imperial Russian army of 1914

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The White Russian Armies 1917-1923

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Interventionists in the Far East

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The Combat Record of the Konarmia

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Formation of the Red Army Cavalry

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The End of the Green Army 1920-21

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Russian Imperial Guards ORBAT 1917

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