mar 19, 1919 - Soviet civil war

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Feb 14 Soviet Russia is in a civil war and conducting a westward offensive to establish revolution and to gain security for itself in areas abandoned by Germany and no longer under tsarist authority. War between the new Polish Republic and Soviet Russia begins near Brest: the Battle of Bereza Kartusk. On the side of Soviet Russia are Poles who want a Bolshevik Poland.

Mar 8 In Russia's civil war, the Bolsheviks have been holding center ground with various anti-Bolshevik forces coming from different directions. In central Siberia, the forces of anti-Bolshevik Admiral Alexander Kolchak have advanced to the towns of Okhansk and Osa. Where Kolchak rules, thousands of people suspected of supporting the Bolsheviks are to be exterminated.

May 7 The Bolshevik government in Moscow forms units of 35,000 Central Asian Muslim draftees – former subjects of tsarist colonialism. Many of the conscripts will rebel, fleeing with their weapons to the anti-Russian Basmachi fighters.

Oct 19 An anti-Bolshevik drive led by the Russian General Yudenich has been threatening Petrograd. Rather than his little army fighting a city of 700,000 inhabitants organized against him, he returns toward Estonia.

Nov 2 Since late April, Bolshevik forces in central Siberia have been pushing against Kolchak's forces. The anti-Bolshevik forces are now disorganized and falling back toward Omsk.

Nov 14 The Bolshevik Red Army takes the city of Omsk without any serious resistance. It captures large amounts of ammunition, almost 50,000 soldiers and ten generals.

1920

Jan 3 Russia's civil war is winding down. The Bolsheviks secure an armistice with Estonia. The Russian anti-Bolshevik army leader, Yudenich, in Estonia, will be arrested in a couple of weeks as he tries to escape to western Europe.

Feb 7 The anti-Bolshevik military leader in central Siberia, Kolchak, has surrendered and is executed.

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