Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War within the territory of the former Russian Empire sought the creation of independent nation states that were not aligned with the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. Many pro-independence movements emerged after the dissolution of the Russian Empire and fought in the Russian Civil War.[1]
The following list presents some of the pro-independence movements and the conflicts they were involved in during this period.
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Western periphery
- Finland (independence from 1917)
- United Baltic Duchy
- Baltic State (Lasted from April to September 1918)
- Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1918)
- Estonia (independence from 1918)
- Latvia (independence from 1918)
- Lithuania (independence from 1918)
- Poland (independence from 1918)
- Soviet Republic of Naissaar
- Ukrainian People's Republic (independence 1917–1921; partitioned between Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the Ukrainian SSR)
- Belarusian People's Republic (independence 1918–1919; partitioned between Poland and the Belarusian SSR)
- Crimea (independence 1917–1918; annexed by the Russian SFSR in 1921)
- Moldavian Democratic Republic (united with Romania in 1918)
European Russia
- East European Russia
- Bashkiria (autonomy and de facto independence 1917–1919; joined the Russian SFSR)
- Idel-Ural (independence 1917–1918; annexed by the Russian SFSR)
- Provisional Regional Government of the Urals
- North European Russia
- South European Russia
- Kuban Rada (formed into April, 1917. Became the Kuban People's Republic in 1918)
- Kuban People's Republic (independence 1918–1920; annexed by the Russian SFSR)
- Don Republic (independence 1918–1919; annexed by the Russian SFSR)
Eastern periphery
- Siberian regionalism
- Buryat-Mongolia
- Yakutia
- Green Ukraine
- Tungus Republic
- Far Eastern Republic. (De facto independent 1920–1922; merged with the RSFSR)
Caucasus
- Transcaucasia
- Azerbaijan (independence 1918–1920; invaded by the Russian SFSR and transformed into the Azerbaijan SSR)
- Armenia (independence 1918–1921; invaded by the Russian SFSR and transformed into the Armenian SSR)
- Georgia (independence 1918–1921; invaded by the Russian SFSR and transformed into the Georgian SSR)
- Kars Republic
- Caucasian Emirate
- Mughan
- Centrocaspian Dictatorship
- United Republics (independence 1917–1922; annexed by the Russian SFSR)
Central Asia
- Basmachi
- Alash Autonomy
- Confederated Republic of Altai
- Khiva
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Turkestan Autonomy
- Transcaspian Government
- Semirechye Cossacks
References
- ^ Bullock, David (2008). The Russian Civil War, 1918–22 (1st ed.). Oxford: Osprey Pub. ISBN 978-1-84603-271-4.