Figures in the Russian Civil War

Some of the most important figures during the Russian Civil War

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The leader of the Bolsheviks	Vladimir Lenin
The last Tsar of Russia	Tsar Nikolai II
Founder of the Red Army	Lev Trotsky
Bolshevik general who would become the second leader of the USSR	Ioseph Stalin
General and leader of the South Russian Volunteer Army	Anton Denikin
General who had a rivalry with the previous answer and lead the last white holdout in Crimea	Pyotr Wrangel
General who launched a putsch on Petrograd	Lavr Kornilov
Prime Minister of the provisional government Prior to the October Revolution	Alexander Kerensky
Admiral who lead the Provisional Siberian Government	Alexander Kolchak
Former Socialist Revolutionary terrorist who joined the Whites during the ice march	Boris Savinkov
High ranking Bolshevik who would later lead the "right opposition" to Stalin	Nikolai Bukharin
Red Army general who almost won the battle of Warsaw	Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Red Army general often blamed for the above defeat	Semyon Budyonny
High ranking Bolshevik who was the first leader of the Communist International and was later purged by Stalin	Grigory Zinoviev
Leader of the left SR's	Maria Spiridonova

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Hetman of the Ukrainian State	Pavlo Skoropadsky
Leader of the Ukrainian directorate and Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army	Symon Petliura
Anarchist revolutionary who lead the Ukrainian Free Territory	Nestor Makhno
Bolshevik who was commissar of foreign affairs and a devoted Trotskyite	Karl Radek
Ottoman General who supported the Basmachi movement	Enver Pasha
Basmachi Leader who was also the last Khan of Khiva	Junaid Khan
Baltic-German cavalry general who liberated Mongolia to gain support for the whites	Roman Von Ungern-Sturnburg
Bolshevik general who commanded the Siberian front	Vasily Blyukher
General in the Czechoslovak Legion known for his eye-patch	Jan Syrový
White Russian general who captured Rostov-on-Don in the early days of the civil war	Mikhail Drozdovsky
Baltic-German White Army general who served in the far-east	Mikhail Diterikhs
Prime minister of Poland who halted Bolshevik forces on the Vistula	Józef Piłsudski
Ataman of the Don Cossack Host	Pyotr Krasnov
Ataman of the Transbaikal Cossack Host	Grigory Semyenov
Ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Host	Alexader Dutov