probably a majority,date the Civil War from the summer of 1918,usually linking it to an uprising by Czechoslovak troops in May.Dating the Civil War from the summer of 1918 has important implications:it suggests a peaceful start to Soviet power,increases the weight...
Alexander III Government Russia in XIX-XX centuries. First World WarSoviet Russia When analysing a complex, contradictory and dramatic process of drastic transfigurations after October 1917, it is important to realise from the very start, that it's absolutely non-perspective to try to catch real...
Since people are trying to live as if the war is nonexistent and the government does not talk about any losses or problems associated with the war, all negative consequences of the war are either normalized or pushed into the realm of “personal problems” that are not discussed with anyone ...
Tanks had a negligible impact on the Russian Civil War. Their use by the White forces was sporadic and often ineffective, hampered by complexity of the machines, poor training of their crews, and a lack of supporting infrastructure for such heavy and unreliable vehicles. Soviet armored Auto-Tan...
Defense Minister Shoygu recounted the “great experience” gained from the Syrian civil war. He said every military district commander, staff officer, army and air army commander, division, brigade, and regiment commander has received combat experience in Syria. Ninety percent of flight crews and ...
While anti-war protesters are arrested and fined for “discrediting” the army, this sharp criticism of Putin’s campaign and his regime is not banned. The piece makes various points about the military’s operational failures to date and the West’s economic war to “destroy” Russia. ...
He and his mother filed complaints about the violations [of his civil rights], about how he had been roughed up during the arrest, how all their electronic equipment, even his mother’s computer and phone, had been cleaned out. Can you imagine, they still haven’t returned it! As part ...
In 1915 the Germans captured Lithuania-proper during the First World War. In 1917 Russia surrendered to Germany (after the war hardships led to a revolution in Russia) and renounced any claims to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, while the subsequent German losses in the Western Front led...
” Feet were pounding up and down Smolny’s hallways. In the crowded, stuffy, smoke-filled assemblies, as the arguments raged on and on, a deeper sound interrupted—the “dull shock” of cannon fire. Civil war had begun. With a reporter’s instinct Reed ventured out again into the city...
and ceasefires during Olympic Games and other such celebrations and great sporting events — the Emperor of Ice Cream’s repressive and imaginative secret services have seemingly notched up their civil war against their own people while you stay glued to your TV set, pretending it is possible to...