![]() ![]() ![]() The two largest combatants were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favouring political monarchism, capitalism and social democracy, each with democratic and anti-democratic variants. Bolshevik rule was not universally accepted, and the country descended into civil war. A tense summer culminated in the Bolshevik-led October Revolution, overthrowing the Provisional Government of the new Russian Republic. The Russian monarchy had been overthrown by the 1917 February Revolution, and Russia was in a state of political flux. Its finale marked the end of the Russian Revolution, which was one of the key events of the 20th century. It resulted in the formation of the RSFSR and later the Soviet Union in most of its territory. ![]() Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossii 7 November 1917 - 16 June 1923) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the monarchy and the new republican government's failure to maintain stability, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. ![]() Spring 1919 counteroffensive of the Red Army.Spring 1919 offensive of the White Army. ![]()
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