Russian Civil War (Early World War I)

The Russian Civil War 1906-1914
This is the Russian Civil war in the time-line where the Russo-Japanese War expanded into an earlier first world war thanks mainly to the Dodger Bank incident, which in real life didn't cause a war between Britain and Russia; but in this time-line it does and then lots of other alliances come into play and other countries join the war and fighting nations get revolutionaries in enemy countries to rise up. Anyway this timeline's main page is here if you want to know anything else about the timeline. This civil war is also mentioned in the World war one page which is also linked to.

The Start of the Civil War
The civil war had been brewing in the Russian Empire for some time, the authoritarian, central government of the Tsar had been oppressing the Russian peasants for hundreds of years. The lack of any democratic representation also had been annoying politicians and people wanting change as there was no real way to do so, the great western democracies of Great Britain, USA, France, etc; were showing a real improvement in how the people should be treated by there government. This lack of representation and long dissatisfaction with the government gave way to numerous political parties. The political teachings of Karl Marx had appealed to numerous people and gave way to socialist parties such as the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (this party would later form the Soviet state); these were the main two socialist parties, but other nobles in Russia wanted power and wanted to replace the Tsar in a constitutional monarchy. Other people wanted the monarchy abolished and a democratic republic in place, and some wanted an anarchic state. As well as political motivations, other conquered nations in the Russian Empire such as the Poles, Finns, Latvians, etc; wanted independence from Russia so they could rule there own land.

All these rising tensions were reaching boiling point and in the real world they would simmer violently in the 1905 Russian Revolution but not boil over until the 1917 Russian Revolution. In this time-line however the 1905 revolution or the 1917 one would neither happen; but they would boil violently in 1906 until 1914. This Russian revolution would split the empire up into 21 different countries and kill millions of people.

1904
The Russo-Japanese War started in 1904 and the initial losses for the Russian Imperial Army caused much disarray and resentment back home towards the army for losing against the Japanese as they were still seen as a lesser nation, certainly not strong enough to beat the Russians. This war did a similar thing for Japan's reputation in real history, however not on the scale as it did in this time-line. The almost complete destruction of the Russian Far East fleet had given Japan control of the seas and free to attack anywhere along the Russian coast. The Tsar didn't like the thought of the Japanese attacking Vladivostok and Port Arthur as this would take out Russian naval power in the far east, so the Tsar sent his Baltic Fleet to attack the Japanese (he couldn't send the Black Sea fleet as the Ottomans wouldn't allow the fleet through their waters). This fleet though would attack some British trawlers at Dogger Bank thinking they were an Imperial Japanese Navy force, after rumours of a Imperial Japanese fleet detachment in the North sea. This incident got Britain to support Japan against Russia and this caused fear of a major military loss from the public now the British were fighting the Russians too. The British formed a blockade in the North Sea to stop Russian merchant ships, which caused a lack of luxury goods in Russia, causing a feeling of discontent in the Russian high classes.

1905-1906
The Japanese take Port Arthur on January 2nd 1905 which creates more discontent in the Russian Empire; and then because of these events and more, caused a march of unarmed, peaceful demonstrators going to the Winter Place in St.Petersburg to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II on January 22nd, which demanded improved working conditions, fairer wages, and a reduction in the working day to eight hours. Other demands included an end to the Russo-Japanese War and the introduction of universal suffrage. However, the Tsar was in no condition to meet the demands of the workers due to the war and an economic depression sweeping Russia. The demonstrators brought along their families in hope of seeing their Tsar and delivering the petition to him as they believed he would take into account their miseries and attempt to sort their problems for them. They believed it would be a peaceful and patriotic day during which they could pass on their petition to the Tsar. The army pickets near the palace released warning shots, and then fired directly into the crowds to disperse them. Around forty people surrounding him were killed, but he was not injured. Although the Tsar had not been present at the Winter Palace at this time, he received the blame for the deaths, resulting in a surge of bitterness towards himself and his autocratic rule from the Russian people. This act of the Imperial guard gunning down unarmed civilians showed a disregard for ordinary people, and decreased the support for the state. The day of this massacre was described by Tsar Nicholas II as "painful and sad".

The growing discontent for the Tsar caused Nicholas II to agree to create an elected assembly (the Duma) on the 3rd of March 1905 to try and appease the unsatisfied people of Russia. This was a good step as it did please lots of people, but by the end of May, the Japanese have complete control of Manchuria and the entire Sakhalin islands chain (Sakhalin and the Kuril islands) which creates lots of unease back in Russia.

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The war continues with an Anglo-Japanese blockade of blockade and siege of Vladivostok towards the end of June. A Russian assault along the trans-Siberian-Manchurian railway to attack Khailar but this is repulsed by a combined British-Japanese force. This force goes onto attack Russia directly along the trans-Siberian railway in the winter by attacking and destroying Chinkuntsk, Chita, Lidinsk and Irkutsk. After destroying Irkutsk the force turned back to Manchuria while destroying the railway, also raised all the settlements it came across on its way back with some more 1000 Russians deserting with the Anglo-Japanese force. They returned to Khailar by September 1st. Plus while all this was happening, the siege at Vladivostok was continuing, however the Russians were holding out, very well from the naval bombardments. In order to aid the invasion of Maritime territory, the Anglo-Japanese force which attacked Chita and Irkutusk, moved out of Khailar across Manchuria to attack the town of Kumarsk and from their subdue the rest of the Amur region, before going on to attack Nikolayevsk and north Maritime obaslt. On September 25th Vladivostok had fallen and most of the Amur region was taken too. The rest of Amur and Maritime was taken over by the 21st of February the following year, the length of this take over was greatly affected by a harsh winter, and the guerilla tactics of the Russian loyalists; but the majority of the Russian peasants welcomed a new leadership in the area.

However before the counter-attack in the winter in 1905, on August 2nd 1905, the Black Sea fleet mutinied and sailed out into the Black Sea, and then on the 4th the fleet arrived in Cyprus and offered there allegiance to the British. This was the last of Russia's main naval strength and were now at the mercy of the British, this caused lots of problems in the war council and cemented the Russian people's worst fears of a major defeat. But by the time this news reached the Russian people, members of the Bolsheviks of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party began a revolution in Moscow and Kiev and in other areas across Russia, this revolution by the Bolsheviks was to be violently suppressed by the 10th of August, but general Bolshevik terrorism continued.

Back to 1906 now, where the British knew they wouldn't be able to match Russian military strength on land so they devised a plan to make use of growing governmental discontent within Russia by sending in spies and agents via Norway to meet with the various leaders of independence movements and revolutionists in Kem the port on the White sea. The British would give arms, some military assistance and political recognition to the future states, in return for military aid and an alliance against the Tsar's forces. The Germans had also become interested in the war against Russia and decided to join the war against Russia. The forces began to be slowly build up and armed riots and coups in Riga and Helsinki began on January 2nd 1906, then a section of the British fleet then entered the bay of Riga and fired on Riga on the 3rd, as well as another detachment of the British blockade attacking Helsinki and another detachment sailing to St. Petersburg and a naval bombing commenced, which was to last until March, when the naval bombardment stopped. The coups in Latvia and Finland then started to get into full swing as the British made troop landings in Riga, Helsinki, Aland islands and Osd island. Then on the 5th the Polish coup began, however this was much more successful as the Poles where armed much better, then on the 9th the Germans declared war on Russia and invaded Polish Russia and Lithuania. Then on the 12th the Swedish declared war on Russia and attacked Lapland. Then on the 13th Norway declared war, and the crack Swedish and Norwegian snow troops managed to start a successful hit and run invasion of Lapland. The Russians began to quickly lose land and control, but they did sign a peace treaty with the Japanese in March, which meant the Japanese kept all of their territorial gains as well as control of all Russian spheres of influence in China and Mongolia. With the British and Germans invading, the Poles, Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians,Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Crimeans all starting independence revolutions, and the soviets beginning to form a state in Siberia; the Russian civil war has truly began.

The True start of the Civil War 1906
The Russian Imperial army had been pushed out of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and the Kola Peninsula; this meant that the Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and Finns had taken control of their homelands but the Russian Imperials weren't having any of this and viewed it as a foreign invasion. This gave way to a large trench based front along Onega river and to the big lakes of south Karelia; this trench strategy was by the forces near-by to hold back the advance as the massive Russian army mobilized, however the pushes by the mainly German army were so strong that the newly arriving troops to the line had to re-enforce the retreating Russian forces and by April 2nd the Russian Imperial army had stabilized their western front. Elsewhere on the eastern front the Russians began an attack against Japanese held Manchuria, but the Japanese had learned of this attack and marched into Russia to meet the advancing army and they met around Chita. The two armies fought in the 2nd battle of Chita on January 17th which was a decisive Japanese victory. As well as this repulsion, the Japanese also invaded the Kamchatka Peninsula in order to gain some further land, after Japanese reconnaissance reported that only a single Russian militia guarded the main town in south Kamchatka, Petropavlovski, so the Japanese decided to invade based on this, and this information proved true. The Kamchatka peninsula, Sakhalin, the Kurile islands and the greater Manchuria region were under Japanese control and on March 4th 1906 the Japanese and Russian Empire signed the treaty of Chita which caused the Japanese to keep their currently controlled territories in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, the Kurile islands and the greater Manchuria region. This was mainly done in order to free up troops and also the Russian Tsar vowed to regain these lost territories after the war in Europe was over, the Japanese began to assert their control and declare the newly acquired Russian territories in maritime territory and the Amur region as the Colony of Yukiyama as well as declaring Manchuria a jointly controlled state, with Japan and China both running the region. Sakhalin and the Kurile islands are incorporated into the Japanese empire, each as their own prefecture (Karafuto prefecture (Sakhalin) & Chishima prefecture (Kurile islands) and Kamchatka became the colony of Southern Kamchatka; this caused many Japanese settlements to be set up across the new prefectures and colonies.

The Ottoman Empire saw the revolts across the Russian Empire and decided to invade Russia since there armies were already stretched out, so they decided to invade the Caucasus region to regain old land and attacked Georgia. The Ottoman Empire however doesn't side with Britain or German and fights by itself, for itself; this new opponent worries the Tsar as a front in the Caucasus would spread out the army too much, so he tried to form a peace with the Ottomans. With the loss of this eastern troops the Russian High command didn't have to worry about a dangerous two front war, however the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party moved its headquarters from Moscow to Ayamsk which was deep within the Taimur peninsula in Siberia in order to prevent attack by the Russian Imperials due to its remoteness. From here their leaders Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known by his pseudonym - Lenin) and Julius Martov and they jointly declared a Marxist state, however they both led the opposing factions of the party, the Bolsheviks which were headed by Lenin and the Mensheviks lead by Martov; so they disagreed on a lot of things, however they both vowed to solve these differences after the war. They began to call the socialist masses to Siberia to form their Marxist nation and planed to extend their soviet ideals across Russia eventually. However due to the remoteness of Ayamsk the soviet leadership planed to extend their control to the trans-siberian railway in order to make transport easier; and also to build lots of telegraph lines from Ayamsk in order for the leadership's commands to be spread to the front lines easily. On May 1st Lenin proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Siberia and this date was declared a Soviet holiday.

The Crimean nationals had also started a revolution with the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, however the Crimean Nationals and the anarchists were weary of each other and had different ideals, but they gained support from Germany and England and form their own anarchic republic in the Crimean peninsula. The anarchists knew most of the populace of their anarchic republic weren't anarchists so they vowed to convert them by teaching them anarchic principles and such via propaganda leaflets and speeches by their 'leaders' such as Nestor Makhno (who would later go on to control this anarchic movement).

Events of the civil war in 1907
Elsewhere a group of Russian nobles, later known as the Muscowy league was formed in a secret meeting in Moscow. They were planning a revolt against the Tsar and to oust his government and replace it with their own government. This was mainly due to dissatisfaction with the Tsar's government, a will for liberal reform, as well as each of the league's member's desires for more power and money.

The Soviets were becoming more focused around Siberia, with loads of Soviet supporters slowly travelling across Russia to join the Soviets. Several factory riots also took place across Russia, the bloodiest being the battle of Tomsk which started out as a factory riot but quickly spread out across Tomsk.

Also the Turkestan ethic armies where planning their own revolution with the support of most of the population in the Turkestan region; and in November they started an armed coup in several major cities in Russian occupied Turkestan, most importantly Samarkand was taken within a few hours and from that day served as the capital of the Turkestan empire and base of operations for the Turkestan army. This caused the loss of almost all Imperial control in the Turkestan region and martial law was declared in this area.

Also in the Caucasus region the Ottomans had beaten the Russians and drafted a peace treaty, which ceded the Caucasus region to the Ottoman Empire, however no reparations had to be paid to the Ottomans from the Russians as part of the peace dealings. The Russians accepted on July 17th in order to free up troops the Caucasus region was lately becoming increasingly hostile to Russian rule and the Ottomans moved in on July 20th. However Georgian resistance and Armenian resistance had Azerbaijan resistance had all met to form an alliance against Ottoman rule and help each other after their subsequent independence on August 1st and on September 4th they started an armed revolt.

The Russian government however got some help after the Norwegian and Swedish governments agreed peace terms with the Tsar in July, due to them gaining all the land they were promised by the Allies. This did annoy the other allies a fair bit, however they continued to support the Russian Republic and Finland in North west Russia Empire, by allowing allied shipping through Norway and Sweden, gave weapons and fincial support also.

Russia loses Moldavia to Romania
Another independence movement started in Moldavia, however the majority of the people in this revolt wanted to be united with Romania. This revolt started in January and quickly spread due to the lack of Russian Imperial troops in the area. Some of the leaders of this revolt met with the Romanian government in March after the revolt had spread out across most of Moldavia; in which they came to an agreement for Moldavia to join in a political union with Romania (similar to that of the UK). The Moldavians and Romanians negotiated for the rest of March until representatives of the Moldavian rebels and the Romanian government met with the Tsar, and they gave the Tsar their deal. The Tsar accepted the deal as Moldavia joining Romania, the Tsar in return would get Russian Imperial troops the right to pass through Romania for the next 200 years, as well some reparations, which was needed by the Tsar for the war effort. This deal was finalized in the treaty of St.Petersburg on April 7th and it was put into effect by April 28th when the last Russian troops moved out of Moldavia, and finally on May 3rd, the money was paid by Romania to the Russian Empire's treasury.

The Crimean "Civil War"
Elsewhere the Crimean anarchists were losing support from the Crimean peasants and other non-anarchists and on April 3rd the Crimean republicans were founded and on September 2nd their army rebelled against the anarchists. The Crimean "civil war" lasts from September 2nd until October 15th. Numberous little battles take place between the anarchists and Crimeans, the anarchists are slowly pushed back and forced to withdraw to Krasnoperekopsk. Lots of the former Crimean Anarchists and lesser members of the Black army mutiny to join the Crimean Republican army. The remaining true anarchists stayed in Krasnoperekopsk preparing to leave Crimea to find a new land to form an anarchist state. The Crimean Republican army marched on Krasnoperekopsk to drive them out of Crimea and to start stabilizing the peninsula in order to form their own nation. The army arrived outside the city and then sent in a messenger telling the anarchists to clear out of Crimea. The anarchists negotiated to stay for a week before moving out. The rest of the anarchists got together, banded their supplies together and began the Black March on October 15th. The Black March began marching out from Crimea, then to go across west Ukraine, looking for another place to establish an anarchist state. Along the way they tried to convert people to their anarchy cause.

The Civil War in 1908
1908 was a violent year with some independence movements gaining lots of additional territory. This year is set out so you can see the events of each of the main factions did in this year.

Event concerning the Black Army
The Black March of the Anarchist Black Army continues from Crimea into North of the Ukraine, they are attacked by Russian Imperial troops in the battle of Zhashkiv in January. This is a black victory with the Black army continues to march and on March 13th they begin to besiege the city of Kiev. This starts the first battle of Kiev.

The First Battle of Kiev (March 13th - April 22nd)
The Black army attack Kiev from the South West attacking the Holosiiv and Solom'yansk districts first. They eventually take over Holosiiv by March 27th and begin to attack Pechersk; then Solom'yansk was under Anarchist control by March 29th. Then Perchersk fell on April 1st. The Russian commander of Kiev decided to leave west Kiev and withdrew from Western Kiev on April 2nd, destroying the bridges as they retreated. The Dnipro river now protected Eastern Imperial-held Kiev, however this causes the rest of West Kiev to fall under Anarchist control by April 4th.

A stalemate held for a week until the enforced Imperial troops launched an assault against West Kiev on April 14th. This assault was done via small barges but Black Army sniper's were charged with stopping River crossings; the river assault sent 250 troops across on barges, but 107 were killed by sniper fire. Snipers had been adopted as a useful defensive tactic by the Black army when they were guarding the Crimean border but weren't used by the Imperial troops that much. The rest of the assaulting troops were shot down as they clambered out of the boats and from the river to near-by buildings. The buildings lining the river were full of Black army troops in good defensive positions with the Imperial troops having hardly any cover. A Black army lieutenant, Nestor Makhno decided to launch a counter attack against East Kiev using captured barges and the large wooden bridge/plank they had built to cross the gap in the middle of the Struve Railroad Bridge. This two pronged attack caught the Russians off guard thanks to the disarray caused by the earlier failed assault. Black army sent over 5 experimental tachankas to attack East Kiev; these tachankas causes great casualties and disarray as the horses run quickly through Kiev gunning down very one and anything. This is then backed up by the advancing black army troops, with the front line carrying shields which also serve as shooting posts/bipods for the rifles & machine guns (these are named Soshka Ekranuvaty (not 100% on that translation but it should translate from Ukrainian to English saying Bipod Shield) being shortened to Soshekran in slang terms between the black army troops). This leads to a continuous attack by the Anarchists until April 22nd when the remaining Russian troops retreat out of Kiev north to Chernigov.

With this victory, Nestor Makhno becomes general of the Tachanka Corps of the Black Army following there success in the First Battle of Kiev. He goes about expanding the about of Tachankas from 5 to 50 by the month's end and then to 200 by the end of the year; needless to say Makhno succeeds in this.

As well as Makhno's promotion, Boris Fedotova a big general in the Black Army and mastermind behind the Soshka Ekranuvaty; declares himself Mayor of Free Kiev, and the City state of Free Kiev. The loss of this major city causes lots of global shock and has the Tsar sending in a second army to retake Kiev.

The Second Battle of Kiev September 22nd - 30th
The Second battle of Kiev was part of the Imperial Russian Southern Campaign in attempt to re-gain control over Ukraine & Crimea. This was the last of the campaigns to start as the Tsar had to wait for troops left over from the other back-up armies, and when there was enough troops, the campaign began, however the southern campaign's troop numbers were no where near as high as the other campaigns.

Peace declared between the Russian Empire and Finland
Bound by the terms of the treaty of Oslo, the Finland government realize that they can't gain any more land and rather than lose men for a needless cause, they decide to leave the war in order to focus on stabilizing and re-building their new nation. So Finland decide to offer peace to the Russian Empire and they both sign the treaty of Viborg on October 3rd which declares Finland's peace with the Russian Empire and and establishment as a recognized state; this however causes the Russian Empire to lose a fair bit of territory. The Finns continue to support the allies though, by allowing troops and supplies through its territory to the Russian Republic. This is a good thing for the Tsar as it is the loss of another aggressor but it was at a large cost of land.

The Crimean Republic's separatist movement
The Crimean Republic stabilizes its territory around the Crimean Peninsula quite well after and stops an Imperial Russian Invasion in the battle of Novotroists'kyi in November.

The Turkestan Coup
More revolts and revolutions across Turkestan happen, increasing the land that recognizes the rule of the Turkestani army, the Turkestani controlled land doubles in size.

The Russian Republic
The Russian Republic makes more advances and gains from the Russian Empire

The Start of Ukrainian Separatist movements
Various Ukrainian nationalists groups (some of which were already staging rebellions) meet in Khmelnitsky to discuss creating an independent state. All of these groups are democratic separatists as all the communists go to Siberia, the royalists join the Imperial army and anarchists in Ukraine join the Black army. They form the Democratic Ukraine Separatists (DUS) and they meet with the allies to discuss the western front moving into Ukraine more. The allies agree and DUS begins lots of revolts across Ukraine.

The Soviet Republic of Siberia
The Soviets increase their control in Siberia and establish the Soviet Republic of Siberia in their Siberian controlled lands. However a divide between the Socialist moderates (the Menshiviks) and the majority Bolsheviks began to surface and began to threaten the stability of the Soviet armies.

The Imperial Russian Campaigns
The Czar was facing problems from several areas and devised a plan to deal with them all with a series of campaigns. The first of these campaigns was to be the Western campaign to push out from St.Petersburg against the Russian Republicans and Germans as the Czar was worried about the allies approaching St.Petersburg.

The 1908 Western Campaign; April-June
This campaign was to be lead by General Aleksey Kuropatkin, the former Russian Imperial Minister of War (1898–1904) who was mostly held responsible for major Russian drawbacks in the early Manchurian war, notably the Battle of Mukden and the Battle of Liaoyang. He had lost his title & much recognition but now the Czar offered General Kuropatkin redemption by leading this counter-attack against the advances towards St.Petersburg. He spoke with Viktor Sakharov (who was appointed the War Minister after Kuropatkin) as War Minister General Sakharov was in charge of the defensive of St.Petersburg and subsquently the North of the Western Russian Front. However Kuropatkin was overly cautious as he didn't want to fail the Czar a second time and the majority of his forces became used as backup troops for Sakharov and also to push back the allies in Estonia a small bit; but due to the nature of the trench warfare and Kuropatkin's nervousness not to fail, this campaign just became a large re-enforcement for Sakharov. While this campaign wasn't a failure, it failed to meet its objectives, so the Czar summoned Kuropatkin to a hearing to decide his future: Kuropatkin managed to convince the Czar that the expulsion of the allies couldn't begin until the trench line had been stabilized and trying to expand now would cost lots of unnecessary losses. The hearing ended with Kuropatkin becoming second in command in the Russian Western Front.

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1909
The Crimean Republic is recognized as an independent state by most countries now and on July 1st the Treaty of Yalta is signed, declaring peace between the Crimean Republic and Russian Empire. The treaty also declares peace between Ukraine and Crimea but the Ukrainians continue to fight the Russian Empire.

After being forced out of Kiev, the Black army is fairly spread out and the Czar believes them to be defeated and dispersed. However the anarchists who fled Kiev to the South West continue to march and send out messages to regroup in Kaniv. On January 1st during the New years celebrations in Kaniv the dispersed anarchists meet back up with the main Black army and anarchists start a huge riot in Kaniv and burn it down as they cross the Dnieper (mostly in boats) to the east side and re-start the Black March. Nestor Makhno becomes fe facto leader of the black army (he is known as Batko (‘Father') to his admirers) & Makhno decides to march on Moscow & level it,to show the world the power of anarchy. He gets more & more people to join the Black army & the tachanka corps are expanded vastly and they become a large plundering force. This large expansion of the Tachankas is made possible thanks to a large smuggling opperation of machine guns into Russia from Austria by Peter Arshinov (Peter is smuggling arms into Russia to sell to revolutionaries & cause of the war, Peter doesn't get caught unlike in OTL) who also then meets Nestor & joins the Black Army. (note because of the earliness of the Russian Civil war here, Nestor was never arrested for a third time & instead began to preach anarchism & formed his black army anarchist group in 1908 instead). The Black March is back on and they cross over into Russia in November.

The Turkestani army also consolidates its hold on Turkestan and defeats a Imperial Russian assault in modern day south west Kazakhstan. This shows the power of Turkestan and they meet with the Soviets to decide on their international borders. However the Soviets don't make an agreement with the Russian Republic; and while the Russian Republic makes more advances eastward and meets the Soviet advancing line near the Timan Range of mountains and the battle of Timan range begins between the Republicans and the Soviets.

1910
The Ukrainians greatly expand there controlled territory in the Ukraine and the Turkestanis expel the Russian Imperial troops from Turkestan and expand further, creating a large Central Asian empire. Woes for the Czar continue as on March 4th the Black army reach Moscow and as they attack Moscow, the Moscowy League begin there own rebellion too. The Battle of Moscow forms from the subsequent attack from the Anarchists, revolt my the Muscowy league and the Imperial forces trying to hold it. The battle rages on for the rest of March with the 3 forces fighting viciously all around Moscow. The Black army eventually decides to march east to find a place to establish an anarchist state on March 29th; the Moscowy league also then pushes back the Russian Imperial troops and then begin to expand outwards and gain control of an area around Moscow. The battle of Timan range ends with a Republican Victory and the River Petchora is decided as the Russian Republic-USSR border with the treaty of Lbuna. Also due to the increasing amount of Soviet control outside of Siberia, the Soviet Republic of Siberia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist states, with Siberia being the main and largest of the soviet states; with its capital at Ayamsk. Estonia leave the war after signing the treaty of Pskov with various countries which stabilizes and decides its borders too.

1911

 * The Black Army and other Russian Anarchists ended their march and the Anarchist state of Nebesa is declared around Samara and the Ural river(basically east European Russia).
 * The Mensiviks leave the USSR and begin to try and establish their own moderate communist state around Viatka. They form an alliance with the USSR and the Russian Republic which also helps to decide its borders.
 * Seeing the creation of two new ex-Russian Empire states the Cossacks living around the river Don begin their own revolution and attempt to establish their own Cossack state.
 * The Tatars attempt to establish their own independent state.
 * The Abkhazians attempt to establish their own independent state.
 * The Russian Republicans and the German lines begin to meet and the Russian Empire's armies begins to split and the Tsar Nicholas the second begins to try and to establish peace with the Russian Republicans and the Germans, however the Tsar shows no peace to the communists, anarchists or the Muscowvy league.

1912

 * The Russian Empire's forces are split in two after the Russian Republicans and German Lines meet. This cuts of supplies to Moscow and as a result the Moscowy League greatly expand their territory, as do the Mensiviks, Tatars and Cossacks.
 * The Abkhazians sign peace treaties with Georgia, Ukraine, the Tatars and the Russian Empire which gives peace from the Abkhazians and stabilizes their borders, which puts them out of the war.
 * The Treaty of Baku is signed between the Tatars, Cossacks, Soviets, Mensiviks, Moscowy league, Russian Republicans, Germans, Britains, Abkhazians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Belarusians, Turkestanis, Nebesans, Japanese, Polish and Ukrainians to decide how post war Russian Empire will be split up.
 * The USSR and Poland after the treaty of Baku have all their borders decided with its neighbours and they leave the war since neither Poland or USSR could expand their borders.
 * Nebesa expands northwards and westwards after having its borders decided in the treaty of Baku, and they leave the war as they have nothing else to gain.
 * The Don Cossacks also greatly expand their influence and expand their territory lots. Similarly the Moscowy league also expanded outwards greatly, thanks to finally deciding who would be the Prince of Moscowy out of the main leaders of the Moscowy League of Nobles. On October 17th Prince Ivan of Moscowy was crowned as the constitutional monarch leader of the Grand Duchy of Moscowy. (note I have to do some more research into the Russian Nobility of the time to get a more realistic list of possible Moscowy league members)

1913

 * Tartarstan with there controlled territories shown by the Treaty of Baku now taken, Tatarstan leave the war in June after the South Russian Army is defeated by a joint Tatar-Cossack attack in the 3rd battle of the River Don.
 * Latvia pull out of the war in early January due to its economy nearing collapse due to a period of total war and more actual nation building being needed such as hospitals, laws, etc. Lithuania also pulls out but in November instead of January; however both of these countries allow the Germans and other countries against the Russian Empire to transport troops and supplies threw Latvia and Lithuania.
 * Ukraine pulls out of the war with no more land to gain, however they do give a give a few troops to aid the war effort and let their allies threw Ukraine.
 * The Cossacks push back the Central Russian Imperial Army to around the city of Novgorod.
 * The Russian Empire is pushed back in all fronts after each front is only held by one Imperial army, expect the St.Petersburg area which is held by 3 armies.

1914

 * The Mensiviks and Cossacks defeat the Russian Imperials in and around Novgorod after the battle of Novgorod which included a 2 month long siege. With this last treat to the Mensiviks and Cossacks gone they leave the war.
 * The Other Russian Imperial Armies are pushed back

1915
The Russian Empire surrenders on February 4th with 90% of her army at the start of the war dead, injured or joining other factions. This puts the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, the Don Cossack Republic, the Mensivik Federation, Belarus, and the Duchy of Moscowy; out of the war. This causes the treaty of Baku to be signed by the Russian Empire which shows there consent to the new Russian order.

End of the Civil War
The Civil war ended with lots of people dead (Will extend later)