The Bolsheviks inherited a vast country in ruins. While mopping up continued in Siberia and Central Asia until 1923, the remnants of the main army were forced out of Crimea in November 1920.
DBO Horse Mod is optional but recommended for use with cavalry and cossack units. The decisive engagements occurred in late 1919 Bolshevik forces lifted a western-supported siege of Petrograd by Latvian separatists, and separate White armies were defeated and driven back to Siberia and Crimea. This addon uses the orbat creator and tries to recreate the opposing forces during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War, and Estonian War for Independence. After Germany’s defeat in World War I, the Allies withdrew their ‘interventionist’ forces from Russia, leaving the Whites unsupported. Concerned by the loss of their Russian ally and the rise of communism, the Western powers sporadically intervenet to assist the White Army, converging on the Soviet heartland round Moscow-St Petersburg from bases in the north, far east and south of Russia. The main opposition of the Bolsheviks (the Red Army) were the White Army, a loose alliance of nationalistic and monarchist forces. They were soon embroiled in a complex civil war.
Now effectively defenceless, Russia was forced to accept a ruinous treaty at Brest-Litovsk in March, 1918, ceding vast areas of territory to the Central Powers. I would like to see a map of every state that was created no matter how short lived during the Russian Civil war.
After taking control of Petrograd in the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks promptly demobilized the Russian army.
