The Civil War

In the summer and fall of 1918, the eastern front was by far the most important sector in the Civil War. The Civil War, in the course of which the Soviet government had repeatedly been on the very brink of defeat, was thus won by the Bolsheviks. Meanwhile, on the eastern front of the Civil War, in the Volga region and Siberia, operations soon exceeded those of the Volunteer Army in scope. Even if some of the Allies were pursuing traditional power-politics in their dealings with anti-Bolshevik movements, the United States, and Britain to a lesser extent, made attempts to play the honest broker between the Soviet government and its various opponents. With the exception of the United States, the Allies had once placed some hope in the Semyonov movement, its main supporter being Japan. The anti-Soviet uprising in Archangel of August 2 occurred because Allied support was expected.