Category: Russia

Asia Pacific 1917

Russian Revolution

Yuan Shikai’s successor, Duan Qirui,...

Southern Asia 1917

Transcaucasian Commissariat

Despite widespread success, the Bolshevik...

Northern Eurasia 1918

Bolshevik Russia

The Bolsheviks consolidated their hold over...

Southern Asia 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Transcaucasia’s armistice with the...

Europe 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

With Russia helpless against the German...

Northern Eurasia 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

On December 15, 1917, Lenin, desperate for...

Southern Asia 1918

Breakup of Transcaucasia

Soon after Brest-Litovsk, Transcaucasia...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1918

German invasion of Mozambique

Refusing to accept the Allied conquest of...

South America 1918

South America in the Great War

When World War I broke out in Europe, the...

Northern Eurasia 1918

Civil War and the Execution of the Tsar

The Czechoslovak troops seized much of the...

Southern Asia 1918

Dunsterforce

The German and Ottoman occupation of...

the Arctic 1918

Allied Intervention in Russia

The US entry into the War could not save...

Northern Eurasia 1918

End of the Great War

While the Allies were intervening in Russia,...

Southern Asia 1918

Occupation of Constantinople

On 11 November, Germany agreed to an armistice...

Northern Eurasia 1918

Kolchak's All-Russian Government

In September, the anti-Soviet forces had...