Russian Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Trotsky’s armoured train at Sviyazhsk (1918)
On the Russian Revolution map as “Sviyazhsk: Trotsky’s train”
Aug–Sep 1918 — From an armoured train Trotsky halts the panicked retreat toward Moscow — with rewards, commissars and executions — and retakes Kazan. The moment the Red Army stops running and starts winning.
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- Turning point
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- Outbreak of the Russian Civil War (chapter 8 of Russian Revolution)
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- The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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