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Battle site · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924

Kiev changes hands

Map showing Kiev changes hands — The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924
BATTLE SITE · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1905–1924

1917–20 — The Ukrainian capital passes between Rada, Bolsheviks, Germans, Hetman, Directory, Whites, Poles and Reds — more than a dozen times. No city better shows the war’s many-sided chaos.

This is one scene of Chapter 5 — Brest-Litovsk in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.

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