77.4 Russian Civil War, Conclusion

A History of Europe Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

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The Bolsheviks face numerous opponents across Russia, and struggle to gain control of all lands of the old Tsarist Empire.

The White anti-Bolsheviks make a plan to move on Moscow

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0:00.0	Welcome to a history of Europe, the interwar years. This is the fourth and final part on the Russian Civil War.
0:17.0	In the last few weeks, I've given the background to the Civil War and the description
0:24.1	of the first and the middle parts. If you haven't yet done so, it might be good to go back
0:29.8	and listen to those episodes before this one. But if you have already, or want to continue
0:34.8	anyway, then let's begin.
0:45.3	November 1918 was an important month in the history of the Russian Civil War.
0:53.5	Thursday 7th of November, the anniversary of the Bolshev revolution was a day of great celebrations in Moscow. In the morning, Lenin unveiled a statue
0:56.6	of marks and angles in front of the Bolshoi theatre and then had a mass singing of the Marseille
1:02.7	and the Internationale in the third square. Ten days later, far away from Moscow in the city of Omsk,
1:17.0	Admiral Colchuk took power in a coup to become the leader of the anti-Bolsheviks of Siberia.
1:22.0	But it was the collapse of Germany in the First World War that was the main event.
1:28.3	The subsequent crises in Berlin, Vienna and elsewhere in central and eastern Europe gave increased possibilities for Bolshevik revolutions across the continent.
1:34.0	It also gave the Soviets the opportunity to recover land they had signed away at Brest-Litovsk earlier in the air.
1:41.6	Their first targets were the Baltic states. The three years following, the
1:50.0	armistice are known in the national histories of the Baltic states as the wars of independence.
1:56.7	In Estonia, as the war ended and the German army started dispersing,
2:01.4	the nationalist activists who had proclaimed independence began the process of creating political institutions.
2:08.2	Elections had to be held, ministries created, revenues raised, border secured,
2:13.5	and international recognition sought.
2:17.0	As centre-left, nationalist government quickly took power
2:20.1	which was able to combine nationalism and social reform by dividing the states of the German-speaking
2:26.5	landlords. Then in the second half of November 1918, Bolshevik troops, with support from the Soviet Russian government, invaded.
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