Northern Eurasia 1920: Creation of the Far Eastern Republic
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											Russian Civil War: The White Phase
									
										
											
												1816–1914 Late Tsarist Russia
											
										
									
										
											
												1914–1918 Great War and the Revolution
											
										
									
										
											
												1918–1921 Russian Civil War: The White Phase
											
										
									
										
											
												1921–1927 Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
											
										
									
										
											
												1927–1941 Soviet Union under Stalin
											
										
									
										
											
												1941–1943 Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
											
										
									
										
											
												1943–1945 Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
											
										
									
										
											
												1945–1991 Soviet Superpower
											
										
									
										
											
												1991–pres Successors of the Soviet Union
											
										
									
								
							Creation of the Far Eastern Republic
						
							
								31 Jul 1918 Civil War and the Execution of the Tsar
							
						
							
								1 Sep 1918 Allied Intervention in Russia
							
						
							
								1 Nov 1918 End of the Great War
							
						
							
								1 Dec 1918 Kolchak's All-Russian Government
							
						
							
								3 Feb 1919 Soviet Russian Counter-Offensives
							
						
							
								30 Apr 1919 Revolution in Europe
							
						
							
								1 Aug 1919 Denikin and Yudenich Attack
							
						
							
								1 Nov 1919 Whites in Retreat
							
						
							
								3 Jan 1920 End of Kolchak
							
						
							
								3 Apr 1920 Nikolayevsk Incident
							
						
							
								19 May 1920 Creation of the Far Eastern Republic
							
						
							
								12 Aug 1920 Battle of Warsaw
							
						
					
				On the night of April 4-5, Japanese retaliated for the Nikolayevsk Incident by assaulting Russian partisan positions in the Far East and installing a new government in Vladivostok. In response, the Russians declared a Far Eastern Republic at Verkhneudinsk. Nominally an independent state, it served as a buffer between Japan and Russia over the next few years.
