The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 · THE MAP IN OCT 1920

Map of Russia in October 1920

Poland made peace; Wrangel’s Crimea last · Russian Civil War

Russia in October 1920: Poland made peace; Wrangel’s Crimea last. Since January 1920, 7 territories changed status on this map: including Ukraine, Russian Turkestan (mod. Kazakhstan), Russian Turkestan (mod. Uzbekistan) and 4 more.

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Map of Russia in October 1920 (Russian Civil War): Poland made peace; Wrangel’s Crimea last. Colours show Soviet power, Foreign powers & intervention, Breakaway national states. — OCT 1920 · 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)

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

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.

The Vistula line retains the August campaign maximum discussed in the chapter. The political outline follows the later armistice and Riga source reference.

reconstruction: 1920.78 · reconstruction: 1921 settlement; October 1920 armistice reference · reconstruction: August 1920 historical campaign maximum · vector: 1920.78

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Ukraine	Breakaway national states → Soviet power
Russian Turkestan (mod. Kazakhstan)	Contested / peasant war → Soviet power
Russian Turkestan (mod. Uzbekistan)	Contested / peasant war → Soviet power
Transcaspia (mod. Turkmenistan)	Contested / peasant war → Soviet power
Russian Turkestan (mod. Kyrgyzstan)	Contested / peasant war → Soviet power
Russian Turkestan (mod. Tajikistan)	Contested / peasant war → Soviet power
Azerbaijan	Breakaway national states → Soviet power

On the ground

Wrangel’s Crimea — the last ground held by the Whites
The Far Eastern Republic, a buffer state for Moscow

The chapters of this moment

CH 12 — Polish–Soviet War

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