Women's Battalion
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Women's Battalions were all-female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government, in a last-ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue
Members of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death with their commander Maria Bochkareva (far right) in 1917.
Publicity photo of Bochkareva's battalion after their combat in Galicia, 1917
Russian Civil War
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The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution,
Women's Battalion
…3rd Kuban women's battalions lingered in their camps until early 1918. Some women who had served in these units went on to fight on both sides of the Russian Civil War. De Groot, Gerard J.; Peniston-Bird C. M. (2000). A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military (Women and Men in History). Pearson Education…
Clockwise from top left: Soldiers of the Don Army in 1919 A White Russian infantry division in 1920 Soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army Leon Trotsky in 1918 Hanging of Yekaterinoslav Red Guards by Austro-Hungarian troops in 1918
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Admiral Alexander Kolchak (seated) and General Alfred Knox (behind Kolchak) observing military exercise, 1919
Vladimir Pchelin's depiction of the assassination attempt on Lenin