The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 · THE MAP IN NOV 1917

Map of Russia in November 1917

October · Russian Revolution

Russia in November 1917: October. Since July 1917, 10 territories changed status on this map: including Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and 7 more.

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Map of Russia in November 1917 (Russian Revolution): October. Colours show Foreign powers & intervention, Provisional Government, then the Whites, Contested / peasant war. — NOV 1917 · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Library of Congress — Russian Civil War campaign map 02 (1920s original) · USMA — World War I atlas, chart 41

Source details

Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
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
USMA — World War I atlas, chart 41. Factual geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork not republished

For the 1917 autonomy chapter, the Ukrainian regional outline uses the nearest separately published 1919 geometry as a disclosed reference.

reconstruction: 1917.85 · trace: 1878 settlement, mapped in 1912 · vector: 1917.85

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Russia	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Soviet power
Belorussia	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Soviet power
Ukraine	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Breakaway national states
Estonia (Estland)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Soviet power
Latvia (Courland & Livonia)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Soviet power
Russian Turkestan (mod. Kazakhstan)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Contested / peasant war
Russian Turkestan (mod. Uzbekistan)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Contested / peasant war
Transcaspia (mod. Turkmenistan)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Contested / peasant war
Russian Turkestan (mod. Kyrgyzstan)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Contested / peasant war
Russian Turkestan (mod. Tajikistan)	Provisional Government, then the Whites → Contested / peasant war

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CH 6 — October Revolution

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