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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Russian Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1922.
The war was fought mainly between the "Reds" who were the communists and revolutionaries, and the \"Whites\" who were the monarchists, conservatives, liberals and socialists who opposed the Bolshevik Revolution.
Lenin was surprised by the outbreak of civil war and initially underestimated the extent of the forces that rose against his new country.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Russian_Civil_War   (2154 words)

  
 Russian Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Russian Civil War was fought from 1918 to 1922.
The war was fought for the most part between the "Reds" who were mostly communists and revolutionaries, and the "Whites", a loose coalition of monarchists, conservatives, liberals, and socialists who opposed the Bolshevik Revolution.
Lenin was surprised by the outbreak of civil war and initially underestimated the extent of the forces that rose against his new government.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Russian_Civil_War   (4284 words)

  
 19th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was all possible due to the Russian defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War 1877-1878.
The Civil War in the United States was fought from 1861 to 1865.
Abraham Lincoln was President during the war, and is widely considered one of the greatest leaders of western society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/19th_century   (3600 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Afghanistan's recent history is characterized by war and civil strife, with intermittent periods of relative calm and stability.
A border war with Peru that flared in 1995 was resolved in 1999.
A 12-year civil war, which cost about 75,000 lives, was brought to a close in 1992 when the government and leftist rebels signed a treaty that provided for military and political reforms.
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html   (15472 words)

  
 freedomforall.net: November 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
We Brits see the war in Iraq as oppressive, as an act of empire, and we are ashamed of being part of it.
A rather small coterie of power players are setting the agenda, under the banner of the war on terrorism, by which the oppression of hard won rights becomes the norm.
It seems to me completely incongruous that here we are, in the middle of an Orwellian "war on terror" and the whole of Britain gives up thinking for a night to celebrate a guy who tried to blow up the mother of all parliaments.
www.freedomforall.net /2004_11_01_freedom4all_archive.html   (7208 words)

  
 Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After 150 years, Austria and her Christian allies retook also the territorry of today's Hungary by the END of the 17th century from the Ottoman Empire.
Horthy made an alliance with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, in the hope of revising the territorial losses that had followed World War I. Hungary was rewarded by Germany with historical Hungarian territories belonging to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania, and took an active part in World War II.
This led to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution/revolt and announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with military intervention by the Soviet Union and the deposition and execution of the reform-minded communist prime minister Imre Nagy.
hungary.iqnaut.net   (1889 words)

  
 Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
Civil War and Volga Famine (1918-22): 3,000,000 to 5,000,000
In the Italian Campaign, for example, where the rules of civilized warfare were generally obeyed, there were some 90T civilians and 125T soldiers killed.
After accounting for emmigration (700,000) and a drop in births (423,000), he reckons the total number of deaths caused by the war and its aftermath to be 1,100,000.
users.erols.com /mwhite28/warstat1.htm   (4316 words)

  
 Painters of battle pieces
Note that a very small amount of the Red Commanders the participants of the Russian Civil War including the top leaders as Trotsky, Toukhachevsky, are survived after Stalin 1937 total repression.
One of the "forbidden" areas of the painting was the War War I - the "Great War", because the war was qualified by Soviets as the War between Imperialists: Russia, USA, Germany, France Great Britain etc.
Dmitry and his guests, 2 Russian brothers: the veteran of the White Army and the veteran of the Red Army.
www.armymuseum.ru /dshp_e.html   (447 words)

  
 WWW-VL: History: Military History
The Civil War in The Soviet Union 1918-1920
Nestor Makhno and the Russian Civil war in the Eastern Ukraine
From the Sea to the River: Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak and the Russian Civil War
vlib.iue.it /history/mil/index.html   (1944 words)

  
 StrategyPage.com - Military Book Reviews
The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871
The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship During the Civil War
Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay
www.strategypage.com /bookreviews   (2316 words)

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