As the country descended into civil war between the Reds and ... However, the main problem was that the White Russian forces were wearing those exact uniforms. In 1918, there were numerous ...

Soldiers from the Bolshevik Red Army, clad in winter-white uniforms, rose up from the ... the complex international intrigue of the Russian Civil War. Russia had begun World War I as an ally ...

The civil war was a struggle that embodied much of what’s in the headlines today: ruthless violence, Russian fears of foreign intrusion, a brain drain of educated refugees, and the tension ...