The Russian Civil War (1918-1920) by Major Gordon Corrigan MBE

The ‘October’ revolution in 1917 swept Kerensky’s moderates away and allowed the Bolsheviks to seize power. The result was conflict between the ‘White Russians’, a mix of monarchists, democrats, socialists, power brokers, nationalists and mercenaries, supported by British and American troops and their allies, and the ‘Reds’ in a bloody civil war that killed half a million people.
Major Gordon Corrigan MBE retells one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century in this fascinating lecture.
If you missed Major Corrigan's earlier presentation on The Romanov Dynasty, it is available to watch back here; • The Romanovs - an onli...
It sets the scene perfectly for the presentation on The Russian Civil War.
Host: Natasha Baker (Marketing Manager, Golden Eagle Luxury Trains)
Guest Lecturer: Major Gordon Corrigan MBE (gordoncorrigan.com)

[@starlightlake9666]

My British grandfather was conscripted into the Allied Intervention in Russian Civil War under General Ironside. My mum was about 7 when she said goodbye to him on the station. He was on the Murmansk Archangel railway and she told me that they were sent out there into the cold of Northern Russia in khaki uniforms without sufficient warm clothing. She also told me that the people were very hungry. By a miracle he survived. I remember him in the 1950s

[@johnsrous1616]

I'm sorry for your loss. That really was a fascinating story about him. At least he was able to tell his family that he had survived a Russian winter..

[@DrCruel]

There were 59,150 British troops who served in their entire intervention. Of these, there were about 938 casualties. Note that only 14,378 served in the Murmansk expedition, with the rest being in the Caucasus. It was cold, unpleasant and unpopular duty, with troops often at the point of mutiny, but hardly a miracle to survive.

[@starlightlake9666]

@@DrCruel You should get out more.

[@DrCruel]

@@starlightlake9666 Only 128 casualties in the north. Less than 1% casualty rate.

[@starlightlake9666]

It is a badly recorded history. Conditions were terrible with typhus, starvation cold and a very sick underfed British army. Please show respect

[@kingclover1395]

I love all the old photographs.

[@bobomajoe]

Came across this by chance. What a great video.

[@goransemb5689]

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

My great uncle was sent to Russia with the Royal Scots in 1918 and was killed in a battle south of Archangel just 2 weeks after his 20th birthday in October 1918. His body lies in that British cemetery in Archangel. My grandmother, his younger sister, never spoke of him and the family only became aware of his existence when I began researching the family tree a couple of years ago.

[@stephn4085]

My great uncle is also in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Archangel. He was in the Royal Navy on a mine sweeper and he was killed there in August 1919. He was aged 22. He joined the navy in 1913. Such a sad loss of life. The War should have been over for both of them

[@knockshinnoch1950]

@@stephn4085 Agree, my great uncles unit was based on the Home Front and was never intended to be used "in the field". I was always puzzled by my grandmothers deep hatred for Winston Churchill throughout her life- if anyone praised him she would seethe with anger which was so out of character. Having discovered the story of her brother it all fell into place. Churchill was quite frankly a warmonger his entire life.

[@petermckerrow7694]

Brilliant lecture on a complex topic.

[@peterthayer6238]

Gen. Wrangel deserved significant coverage. He had the plan but the allies pulled out.

[@vadimanreev4585]

There is nowhere to put samples on Wrangel. Have you ever wondered what all these leaders of the white movement lived on?

[@DrCruel]

By the time Wrangel was in charge of the White Russian forces, they were trapped in the Crimea. It was lost by then.

[@isaacrhodes4617]

Really cool and unexpected history content on this channel. More please :)

[@user-sz7oq9is4m]

Interesting, thank you!

[@stuartwheeler518]

Wonderful video, glad I stumbled across it

[@cbeary2000]

This is great!

[@user-jd1cu2vg2b]

The counter-revolution's view and narration.

[@stuartwray6175]

The hotheads and the mob didn't want a constitutional government? ...Hotheads and the mob?

[@marioksoresalhillick299]

No mention of the Black anarchists in Ukraine! I guess it's pretty niche... Otherwise - I loved the lecture!

[@truckingwithmother8119]

tell us more ....please

[@rossjohnson9098]

Possibly a reference to Nestor Makhno?

[@DrCruel]

Makhno's anarchists got a pretty raw deal. They sided with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and were betrayed twice.

[@marioksoresalhillick299]

@@rossjohnson9098 Yes!

[@marioksoresalhillick299]

@@truckingwithmother8119 Glad you are interested, you can look them up! They were a group of anarchists and anarchist-aligned folks that didn't like the Whites or the Reds, and had the lowest amounts of anti-semitic incidents out of all the groups of the russian rev. The main "leader" figure was Nestor Makhno, who was a Ukrainian anarchist. This is a very loose summary, however.

[@el-chivo-manco]

👍

[@jshaio]

Good video but not all accurate: at 34:10 says Lavr Kornilov was captured and shot in the Kuban but in reality his HQ was hit by an artillery shell

[@user-ci7we9of6p]

that was the same time the russian royal family was murdered, and german king were both killed 1918

[@user-sz7oq9is4m]

Are the Kazarian' s modern day Bolshevists?

[@jamesgornall5731]

And we wonder, "why should Russia be wary of NATO expansion? The Norman conquest of England invokved fewer soldiers than were sent by Britain and we still teach it in British schools...nearly 1000 years later.

[@Griboslaw]

Dzierzynski leading ochrana, no mentions bolshevics atrocities but whites are of course highlighted, no mentions of burning churches and monastyrs. Praising Russia in every step. Propaganda at its best.