Draft:List of conflicts involving Soviet Russia (1917–1922)

This is a list of most major battles/operations/campaigns and uprisings involving Soviet Russia before their transformation into the Soviet Union

The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

  Soviet victory
  Soviet defeat
  Some other result
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Date of the conflict Results
October Revolution

Russia Russian Republic

7 November 1917 (OS 25 October)

Victory

Moscow Bolshevik Uprising 25 October – 2 November 1917

Victory

Struggle for Tashkent 28 October – 1 November 1917

Victory

  • Far left factions defeat the goverment forces
  • The counter revolutionary leaders of the uprising were arrested[5]
  • Start of the Central Asian Theater of the Russian Civil War
Kerensky–Krasnov uprising Soviets Russia Russian Republic 8–13 November 1917

Victory

  • Liquadation of the uprising
  • Kerensky goes into exile[6]
  • Krasnov is captured by Bolshevik authorities but is eventualy realesed[7]
Junker mutiny 11 November 1917

Victory

  • Most Junkers were disarmed
  • Revolt ended
  • The entire 56th regiment of Kremlin guards was massacred[8]
  • Failure of the junkers to meet up with Kerensky and Krasnov during their uprising
Semyonov's Rebellion
18 November – December 1917

Eventual victory

  • After a couple weeks of fighting Semyonov retreats to Harbin
  • Creation of the "Special Manchurian Detachment" with around 500 men
  • Start of the battle of Transbaikalia [ru]
  • Disbandment of the Russian army located in the alienation zone of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER)
Battles of Donbas (1917–1918) [uk]
1 December 1917 – 25 February 1918

Victory

  • Capture of the Don and Donbas Military Region by the Red Guard
  • Start of the Ice March
  • Start of the Civil War in the Don
  • The establishment of Soviet power in Donbas gave impetus to the emergence of forces hostile to the Central Rada
  • Massacres of workers hostile to the Don Host
Capture of Rostov-on-Don by the Volunteer Army 1 December 1917

Defeat

Battles of Irkutsk [ru]
  • Russia Counter Revolutionaries
8–17 December 1917

Peace treaty

  • Hundreds killed in Irkutsk
  • A truce was declared at 10:00 on December 29
  • The Bolsheviks broke this truce and captured Irkutsk without resistance[11]
Ovseenko's Kharkiv Campaign Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainians loyal to the Central Rada 8 December 1917 – 10 January 1918

Victory

Battle of Lozova [uk] Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian People's Republic 13 – 16 December 1917

Victory

  • Lozova is taken over by the Soviets
  • Lozova station was taken over by the Anti Communists for a brief period but was recaptured
  • Very light casualties on both sides
  • Small prisoner exchange took place after the battle
Battle of Yasyniv mine [uk] Central Military Revolutionary Committee of Donbass
Soviet Russia
Don Host
Russia Volunteer Army
Supported by:
Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian People's Republic
26–31 December 1917

Defeat

  • 14 rebels killed
  • 118 civilians massacred in a death march
  • 48 Austrian POW's killed
  • Defeat of the Pro Soviet rebels
  • The massacre of civilians only stopped when the former colonel, Agishevstky, order a stop to the executions
Donbas-Don operation 8 January – 25 February 1918

Victory

Struggle for Astrakhan [ru] 11–24 January 1918

Victory

  • Establishment of Soviet power in Astrakhan by late January
  • Ivan Biryukov and his son Pyotr were captured and executed
  • 180 Bolsheviks died
  • The number of counter revolutionary deaths is unknown
Japanese intervention in Siberia
part of the Allied Intervention
12 January 1918 – 24 June 1922

Political victory

Battle of Kruty Ukrainian People's Republic 16–19 January 1918

Strategic defeat

Capture of Orenburg by the Red's 18 January 1918

Victory

Capture of Poltava (1918)
19 January 1918

Victory

  • The occupation of Poltava
  • 100 Junkers killed
  • Muravyov organized a Сouncil of Workers' and Soldiers' deputies, which was entirely satisfactory to the Kharkiv People's Secretariat and Southern Revolutionary Front
Romanian intervention in Bessarabia  Kingdom of Romania

RomaniaVolunteer Corps of Transylvanians-Bukovinians
Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian Democratic Republic (anti-Bolshevik factions)
 Russian Republic
 Ukrainian People's Republic
Diplomatic support:
French Third Republic France
 United Kingdom


 German Empire
 Austria-Hungary

19 January – 8 March 1918

Defeat

Muravyov's Kiev Campaign Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian People's Republic

Diplomatic support:
German Empire Germany
 Austria-Hungary

23–26 January 1918

Victory

  • Soviet capture of Kiev
    • Massacre of between two and five thousand officers, generals and supporters of the UPR
      • Alienation of Ukrainian's from Soviet power
  • Evacuation of the Central Rada
Battle of Kokand (1918) 13–20 February 1918

Victory

Operation Faustschlag 18 February – 3 March 1918

Defeat

German conquest of Soviet Estonia
part of Operation Faustschlag
German Empire

Estonia Estonian Salvation Committee

18 February – March 4 1918

Defeat

First Kuban Campaign 22 February – 13 May 1918

Defeat

Battle of Irpin (1918) [uk]
part of Operation Faustschlag
28 February 1918

Defeat

  • Occupation of Svyatoshyn station
  • Eventual capture of Kiev by German-Ukrainian forces
  • A parade was held after the capture of Kiev
First Yakut struggle Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
  • Yakutian Bolsheviks
  • Irkutsk Bolsheviks
Yakutian rebels February-1 July 1918

Victory

  • Dissolution of Yakutia
  • Start of a red terror in Yakut
Battle of Bakhmach
8–13 March 1918

Victory

  • Successful evacuation of Soviet and Czechoslovak forces
  • 300 German-Austrain's killed
  • 145 Czechoslovak's killed
  • Unknown soviet deaths
  • The battle of Bakhmach became one of the symbols of the Czechoslovakian Legions and their fight for independence
March Days Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia

Armenian Revolutionary Federation

Musavat
Transcaucasian Commissariat
30 March-2 April 1918

Victory

Kolesov's Campaign  RSFSR
Young Bukharans
Emirate of Bukhara Emirate of Bukhara

Basmachi movement

March 1918

Defeat

  • Kizyl–Tepe Agreement
  • Failure of Kostov to establish Soviet power in Bukhara
  • Massacre of hundreds of Young Bukharians
Crimea Operation Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
Taurida SSR
German Empire Germany
 Ukraine
Crimea
13-25 April 1918

Defeat

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