Russian Civil War (Mannerheim's Finland)

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire following immediately the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Many factions desired to shape Russia's political future and were diverged into two main groups, the Bolsheviks; a socialist political movement headed by Vladimir Lenin and the White Army; a loose alliance of anti-socialist groups who favored monarchism, capitalism and various other forms of socialism. Furthermore, thre were smaller groups who sided on neither known as Green armies who were nonideological and consisted mainly of local villagers who wanted nothing more than to protec their homes. The White Army was supported by foreign nations particularly the Allied Forces from the Great War and pro-German armies. Initially White Forces attacked central European Russia from all angles; From Archangel and Finland from the North, Eastern Europe, the Crimea and Southern Europe and finally east from Siberia. This choke was relatively successful until a mass conscription of troops was initiated by Leon Trotsky and the tide switched. Southern Russian troops had linked with the Siberian forces led by Alexander Kolchak but inevitably lost Southern Russia. For a major duration of the war, there was intense but unprogressive fighting in the Ural mountain region which concluded with the signing of an armistic that de facto ended the conflict. The result was a split in Russia between Soviet Russia which composed of European Russia and the Republic of Siberia in Asian Russia. It is regarded as one of the greatest national catastrophes that the world has even bare witnessed.