The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война в России) was a civil war in Russia and other parts of the former Russian Empire between the Red Army and counter-revolutionary White Army. Imperialists from 14 foreign countries including the United States also intervened in the war to help the Whites.
October Revolution
On 7 November [O.S. 25 October], the Russian Republic led by Alexander Kerensky was overthrown and Kerensky fled from the Winter Palace in Petrograd to Pskov. The Menshevik Voitinsky had proposed sending troops to aid the provisional government in Petrograd but was removed in a no-confidence vote. Nikolai Kishkin from the Constitutional Democratic Party was then appointed as dictator and refrained from sending troops to Petrograd.[1]
Interventions
In December 1917, the United States authorized aid to anti-communist forces in southern Russia and the Caucasus.[2] In January 1918, Japanese forces on the cruiser Iwami arrived in Vladivostok. They were followed by a British vessel, a Statesian cruiser, and another Japanese cruiser.[3]
References
- ↑ E. Yaroslavsky, et al. (1946). The History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R: 'The Suppression of the Anti-Soviet Mutiny'. [PDF]
- ↑ David S. Foglesong (1995). America's Secret War against Bolshevism: 'The British Connection' (p. 76). [PDF] University of North Carolina Press.
- ↑ V. Parfenov (1941). The Intervention in Siberia (1918–1922): 'Preparation for Intervention' (p. 8). [PDF] New York City: Workers Literary Publishers, Inc..