by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Russian Empire
Russian Civil War, (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. Seeds Of Conflict Russia’s disastrous performance in... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Aug 14, 2019 | Romania, Russian Empire
On the evening of December 31, 1917 (January 13, 1918, new style), the plenipotentiary minister of Romania in Petrograd, Constantin Diamandy, and the staff of the Royal Legation of Romania were arrested by the Bolsheviks, under Lenin’s order, and taken to the St.... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Oct 13, 2018 | Finland, New or Changed Borders, Russian Empire
Finland’s independence was made possible by the Russian Revolution of February-March 1917. Proclaimed at the end of 1917, after the “Great Socialist Revolution of October”, Finland’s independence was not immediately recognized by other European states. Paradoxically,...