When the white forces launched their assault, a bloody battle commenced but ended in a decisive red victory. Marshall Tukhachevsky thus took personal command of the defense of Leningrad, desperately fortifying the city in preparation for the inevitable assault by white forces. The Soviets also made the city of Petrograd which was renamed into Leningrad as their capital.Īfter the relative quiet of the early war phase, the White forces lead by General Pytor Wrangel in the north and General Lavr Kornilov in the south launched a major offensive against the Red Forces, seizing Moscow and pushing the Red forces back to their capital city of Leningrad. This relative quiet was simply the calm before the storm, paving way for the mid-war phase which was the bloodiest section of the war. The rest of the early phase of the war was relatively quiet, both sides simply gathering strength and waiting for foreign volunteers to arrive. The seizure of Belarus also linked up Soviet Russia with their Polish brethren who had launched a concurrent revolution. The first true military action in the war was Soviet forces moving into and seizing Belarus after crushing the local forces and capturing King Sigismund Hohenzollern who was promptly executed by the reds. In the early phases of the Second Russian Civil War, red forces lead by Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky managed to seize most of the population and industrial centres of the Russian empire.
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