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Russian Civil War Mapped

The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) tore apart the former empire in a struggle between the Red and White armies, national ...
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Tracking the Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) comes to life as we track armies and movements across the vast landscape using Google Earth ...
(See Cover)Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the German commander in south Russia, would have esteemed Vassily Kochetkov, a junior lieutenant of the Red Army. Bock commanded 1,000,000 or more men, ...
The four battleships’ legacy endures in the annals of naval history, highlighting Russia’s shift from classic imperial power to revolutionary Soviet power.
A big man, he liked big, sturdy things. On Russia’s battlefields he saw guns in action: he liked them. When the civil war died down, Voronov turned to artillery.
Thankfully war was averted between the two Communist powers, but the reverberations had an enormous impact on geopolitics, and most likely also contributed in a partial way to both the demise of ...