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Russian Civil War (1918–20) - events| 25 June 1918 | Russia | Czech soldiers in Siberia, who were originally captured by the imperial Russian army, revolt. They seize the Trans-Siberian Railway in their attempt to reach Vladivostok, Russia, en route for Europe. | | 4 January 1919 | Latvia, Russia | The Red Army takes Riga, Latvia, as the Russian communists attempt to reconquer the Baltic states. | | 22 October 1919 | Russia | The Bolshevik Red Army defeats an advancing White force under General Nicolay Yudenich near Petrograd, Russia. | | 14 November 1919 | Russia | The Bolshevik Red Army takes Omsk, Russia, from the forces of Admiral Kolchak and pushes them back into Siberia. | | 8 January 1920 | Russia | In the Russian Civil War, the Red Army defeats a White army under Admiral Alexander Kolchak at Krasnoyarsk in south-central Siberia. Kolchak is executed by the Bolsheviks on 7 February. | | 27 March 1920 | Russia | The Red Army takes Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, precipitating the collapse of Anton Denikin's White Russian army. General Peter Wrangel takes command of White operations. | | 14 November 1920 | Russia, Anatolia | The Russian Red Army takes Sevastopol in the Crimea. With the evacuation of General Peter Wrangel's White forces to Constantinople, Anatolia (modern Turkey), the civil war in Russia is effectively over, with the communists victorious. |
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