The Russian Civil War (1917–1922) was a multi-front conflict that followed the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Bolshevik seizure of power. After Lenin’s October Revolution in 1917, the Bolsheviks withdrew from World War I with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918), ceding vast territories and alarming both Allies and nationalists. Soon, foreign interventions and the emergence of White...
















