Their leaders were experienced military commanders They controlled huge areas of Russia They had the Bolsheviks surrounded They had the active support of foreign countries, which intervened in the ...

Speaking in Crimea on August 14, Vladimir Putin recalled that the peninsula had been the last refuge of the anti-Bolshevik White Russian army in 1920 before it fled Russia, bringing the Russian ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks had to safeguard their fragile grip on the reins of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end ...