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BUILDING STREET BARRICADES IN PETROGRAD
Russian History 1919
Russian
Civil War Timeline - Year 1919
Top Photo
Street barriers in Petrograd (
St. Petersburg).
Source: marxists.org
January 1919
Estonia drives out all
Red
Army troops.
January
3, 1919
The Reds invade Latvia.
January
4, 1919
The Reds capture Riga, capital of Latvia.
January
5, 1919
The Reds recapture Vilna in Lithuania.
January
18, 1919
The Versailles Peace Conference commences. Here,
the winners of WWI will decide how to deal with the losers of WWI, i.e.
Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey.
This conference will be in session until June
28, 1919. Russia is not represented because
everybody had their hands full fighting a civil
war.
The Allies, now not in need of an eastern front
anymore, suggest that all hostile Russian teams
get together for a chat on the island of Prinkipo
in the Sea of Marmara. The Reds think why not, but the Whites refuse.
January
25, 1919
The Reds recapture Orenburg.
January
27, 1919
The Reds recapture Ekaterinburg.
February 3, 1919
The Reds capture Kiev.
March 1919
U.S. diplomat William C. Bullitt
travels to Moscow
and returns with peace proposals from the
Bolsheviks. The Allies didn't accept.
After this, the Allies
give assistance to
Kolchak
and
Denikin, the
leaders of the White
Army.
The French allied troops withdrew.
Here is a map of
the lines of advance.
MAP - LINES
OF ADVANCE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR 1919
marxists.org
March 22, 1919
A Bolshevik government is established in
Hungary. Alexander
Garbai is president and
Bela Kun is
Foreign Minister.
April
8, 1919
The Allies evacuate from Odessa because of the
Red Army's advance. The Soviet Republic of the
Ukraine is formed.
April
16, 1919
German General von der
Gotz stages a coup in Latvia.
April
19, 1919
Poland takes Vilna from the Bolsheviks.
April 28, 1919
The
Red
Army's counteroffensive begins.
May 18, 1919
The Soviet Russian government declares war
against Romania.
May 20, 1919
Kolchak's farthest advance. See map.
Russian Civil War 1919:
Farthest Advance of the Anti-Bolshevik Armies
May 22, 1919
The Germans take Riga.
May 28, 1919
The Armenians declare their independence from
Russia.
May 22, 1919
The
Red
Army takes Ufa.
Kolchak's armies retreats.
June 1919
The Americans withdraw their troops from the
Polar Bear Mission.
June 6, 1919
Finland declares war on Russia over Karelia.
This war will go on until October 14, 1920.
August 1919
The British withdraw from Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.
That's the last Allied forces gone.
August 18, 1919
Denikin captures Odessa.
Denikin and
the White Army goes all out on a last effort. By the end of August most of Ukraine
is
in White hands.
September 1919
The
White Army moves from
the Ukraine
and from the lower Volga toward Moscow.
September
2, 1919
Denikin captures Kiev.
September
26, 1919
Battle
of Peregonovka (Battle of
Perehonivka). White Army
General Slashehev vs.
Black Army leader
Nestor Makhno. The Whites won
but at a high price.
October 8, 1919
The Allies order the Germans to pull out of
Latvia.
October 13, 1919
Nikolay Yudenich,
leader of the White Army, advances from Estonia
direction Petrograd (St. Petersburg). The
Red
Army
counterattacks. Yudenich retreats back into
Estonia.
Battle of Orel.
The Reds are led by Aleksandr Yegorov. The Whites
are led by
Vladimir Mai-Maevski.
The Whites take the city.
Denikin's farthest
advance. Check map.
Russian Civil War 1919:
Farthest Advance of the Anti-Bolshevik Armies
October 20, 1919
The Reds recapture Orel.
November 14, 1919
The
Red
Army
captures Omsk.
Kolchak
relocates
his headquarters to Irkutsk.
General Nikolay Yudenich disbands his
army.
November 20, 1919
The last German troops withdraw from Latvia.
December 16, 1919
The last German troops withdraw from Lithuania.
December 17, 1919
Kolchak
is overthrown and is forced to resign.
General Nikolay Semenov
is the new leader of the White Russian
government in Siberia.
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