Northern Eurasia 1918: Civil War and the Execution of the Tsar
31 July 1918
31 Jul 1918
The Russian Civil War: The White Phase
1816–1914 Late Tsarist Russia
1914–1918 The Great War and the Revolution
1918–1921 The Russian Civil War: The White Phase
1921–1927 The Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
1927–1941 The Soviet Union under Stalin
1941–1943 The Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
1943–1945 The Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
1945–1991 Soviet Superpower
1991–pres Successors of the Soviet Union
Civil War and the Execution of the Tsar
31 Jul 1918 Civil War and the Execution of the Tsar
1 Sep 1918 Allied Intervention in Russia
1 Nov 1918 End of the Great War
1 Dec 1918 Kolchak's All-Russian Government
3 Feb 1919 Soviet Russian Counter-Offensives
30 Apr 1919 Revolution in Europe
1 Aug 1919 Denikin and Yudenich Attack
1 Nov 1919 Whites in Retreat
3 Jan 1920 End of Kolchak
3 Apr 1920 Nikolayevsk Incident
19 May 1920 Creation of the Far Eastern Republic
12 Aug 1920 Battle of Warsaw
The Czechoslovak troops seized much of the Trans-Siberian Railway. With their support, anti-Bolshevik factions quickly gained power across Siberia. Simultaneously, disgruntled leftists rose up in Moscow and Yaroslavl, but were crushed after a few days.
Tsar Nicholas II and his family had been moved to the Ural city of Yekaterinburg in April. On July 17, concerned about the approaching Czechoslovaks, the Bolsheviks executed them by firing squad.
