The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 · THE MAP IN 1921

Map of Russia in 1921

Victors against the people · Russian Civil War

Russia in 1921: Victors against the people. Since November 1920, 2 territories changed status on this map: Georgia and Armenia.

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Map of Russia in 1921 (Russian Civil War): Victors against the people. Colours show Soviet power, Foreign powers & intervention, Breakaway national states. — 1921 · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Library of Congress — Russian Civil War campaign map 08 (1920s original) · Library of Congress — Russian Civil War campaign map 09 (1920s original) · Library of Congress — Russian Civil War campaign map 10 (1920s original) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
A. N. de-Lazari, N. N. Lesevitskii and collaborators; Gosizdat, RSFSR. Historical geographic facts independently reconstructed; original artwork not republished
A. N. de-Lazari, N. N. Lesevitskii and collaborators; Gosizdat, RSFSR. Historical geographic facts independently reconstructed; original artwork not republished
A. N. de-Lazari, N. N. Lesevitskii and collaborators; Gosizdat, RSFSR. Historical geographic facts independently reconstructed; original artwork not republished
Natural Earth. Public domain

Civil-war lines show the published campaign phase. Port, railway and uprising footprints represent thematic military-presence regions; their stated widths do not claim surveyed political frontiers.

proxy: March 1921 event; stable physical island reference · reconstruction: 1921 settlement; October 1920 armistice reference · reconstruction: 1921.5 · vector: 1921.5

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Georgia	Breakaway national states → Soviet power
Armenia	Breakaway national states → Soviet power

On the ground

The Tambov peasant rising against requisitioning
The Kronstadt sailors’ revolt, on the ice off Petrograd

The chapters of this moment

CH 13 — From War Communism to the NEP

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