Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War information
Foreign interventions in Russia between 1918 and 1925
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
Part of the Russian Civil War
Allied troops parading in Vladivostok, 1918
Date
12 January 1918[3] – 20 May 1925[4] (7 years, 4 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Location
Former Russian Empire
Result
Bolshevik victory
Allied powers withdrawal
Defeat and collapse of the Russian White movement
Anti-Bolshevik victory in Finland and the Baltic states
Belligerents
Allied Powers:
White movement
Czechoslovak Legion (1918–1919)
United Kingdom (1918–1920)
Canada (1918–1919)
Australia (1918–1919)
India
South Africa[1]
United States (1918–1920)
France (1918–1920)
Japan
Poland[2]
Greece
Estonia
Serbia
Italy Latvia
Romania
Bolsheviks:
Soviet Russia
Far Eastern Republic
Latvian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Kolchak
Mikhail Diterikhs
Grigory Semyonov
Nikolai Yudenich
Evgeny Miller
Anton Denikin
Pyotr Wrangel
Radola Gajda
Stanislav Čeček
Sergei Wojciechowski
Jan Syrový
Kikuzo Otani
Yui Mitsue
Woodrow Wilson
William S. Graves
George E. Stewart
Robert L. Eichelberger
Wilds P. Richardson
Edmund Ironside
Frederick Poole
Lionel Dunsterville
William Thomson
Wilfrid Malleson
Walter Cowan
James H. Elmsley
Henri Bertholot
Philippe d'Anselme
Konstantinos Nider
Ernest Broșteanu
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Jukums Vācietis
Sergey Kamenev
Pavel Dybenko
Nikolai Krylenko
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Frunze
Vasily Blyukher
Alexander Samoylo
Joseph Stalin
Kliment Voroshilov
Fedor Raskolnikov
Dmitry Zhloba
Semyon Budyonny
Hayk Bzhishkyan
Mikhail Muravyov
Dmitry Nadyozhny
Dmitri Parsky
Alexander Krasnoshchyokov
Strength
50,000–70,000 troops
15,600 troops
30,000 troops[5]
11,000 troops
11,300 troops
70,000 troops
59,150 troops[6][7][8][9]
4,700+ troops
2,500 troops
2,000 troops
150 troops
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Czechoslovakia: 4,112 killed[10]
United Kingdom: 938+ killed[11][12][13][14]
United States: 424 killed[15]
Greece:[16] 179 killed 173 missing 46 dead from wounds or non-combat related causes 657 wounded
Unknown 1 landing craft captured by Romanians[17]
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Theaters of the Russian Civil War
October Revolution
Left-wing uprisings
Allied intervention
Central Powers intervention
Northern
Finland
North Russia
Heimosodat
Eastern Karelia
Western
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Petrograd
Poland
Southern
Ukraine
Ukrainian-Soviet War
Western Ukraine
South Russia
Bessarabia
South Caucasus
Ossetia
Georgia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Tambov
Eastern
Czechoslovak Legionary Revolt
Siberia
1st Kazan
2nd Kazan
1st Perm
Spring 1919 offensive of the White Army
Spring 1919 counteroffensive of the Red Army
Great Siberian Ice March
Chita
Mongolia
Yakut revolt
Central Asian
Bukhara
Khiva
Basmachi
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions that began in 1918. The initial impetus behind the interventions was to secure munitions and supply depots from falling into the German Empire's hands, particularly after the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and to rescue the Allied forces that had become trapped within Russia after the 1917 October Revolution.[18] After the Armistice of 11 November 1918, the Allied plan changed to helping the White forces in the Russian Civil War. After the Whites collapsed, the Allies withdrew their forces from Russia by 1925.[19]
Allied troops landed in Arkhangelsk (the North Russia intervention of 1918–1919) and in Vladivostok (as part of the Siberian intervention of 1918–1922). The British also intervened in the Baltic theatre (1918–1919) and in the Caucasus (1917–1919). French-led Allied forces participated in the Southern Russia intervention (1918–1919).
Allied efforts were hampered by divided objectives, war-weariness after World War I, and a rising discontent among some troops and sailors who were reluctant to fight the world's first socialist state; this reluctance sometimes led to mutiny.[according to who] These factors, together with the evacuation of the Czechoslovak Legion in September 1920, led the western Allied powers to end the North Russia and Siberian interventions in 1920, though the Japanese intervention in Siberia continued until 1922 and the Empire of Japan continued to occupy the northern half [ru] of Sakhalin until 1925.[20]
^Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 15, Nr 4, 1985, pp. 46–48. Accessed January 24, 2016.
^cf. Jamie Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian, Routledge 2006, ISBN 1135765952, p.378, footnote 28
^"The March of the Japanese Army at Vladivostok City". 1919.
^"Japan and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – Convention embodying basic rules of the Relations between Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, together with Protocols a and B, Declaration, Exchange of Notes, Annexed Note and Protocol of Signature. Peking, January 20, 1925 [1925] LNTSer 69; 34 LNTS 31".
^Wright 2017, p. 302.
^Kinvig 2006, pp. 297, 304.
^Sargent 2004, p. 33.
^Winegard 2016, p. 229.
^Wright 2017, pp. 305–306, 394, 526–528, 530–535.
^Bradley, Czechoslovak Legion, 156.
^Kinvig 2006, pp. 289, 315.
^Wright 2017, pp. 490–492, 498–500, 504.
^Winegard 2016, p. 208.
^See also Malleson Mission – Casualties
^Robert L. Willett, "Russian Sideshow" (Washington, D.C., Brassey's Inc., 2003), p. 267
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