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The 11 November 1918 Armistice did not halt the killing in Europe. Fighting ceased only on the Western Front against the Germans, and in the Middle East against the Turks. Even as the Europeans gave thanks for their deliverance from four long years of war, battles continued to rage elsewhere. The Armistice changed only the priorities and added to the Russian chaos. Revolution and civil war rampaged through six distinct areas of Russia — North Russia, South Russia, the Baltic States, Central Siberia, the Ukraine and Crimea and Siberia east of Lake Baikal. In each of these regions different hues of White Russian sought supremacy over their Red enemies.
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Moffat, I.C.D. (2015). Dying in Russia While Others Debate, October 1918–January 1919. In: The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918–1920. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137435736_9
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