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Name: Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus

Type: Polity

Start: 1917 AD

End: 1921 AD

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Was a country in the North Caucasus formed by the unification of Circassians, Chechens, Ingush, Ossetians and Dagestanis that broke away from the Russian Empire during the February Revolution, shortly before the start of the Russian Civil War.

Establishment


  • April 1917: The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus broke away from the Russian Empire during the February Revolution, shortly before the start of the Russian Civil War.
  • May 1917: After the February Revolution, in April 1917 the Kuban Rada, proclaimed itself as the supreme administration of the Kuban Oblast.
  • November 1917: The Transcaucasian Commissariat was established at Tbilisi on 11 November 1917, as the first government of the independent Transcaucasia following the October Revolution in Petrograd.
  • Chronology


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    1. Russian Civil War


    Was a Civil War in Russia that involved varios factions but mainly the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Army in the core Russian territories, as well as a multitude of local secessionist states. At the end of war the Bolsheviks were victorious and established the Soviet Union.

  • February 1918: The Kuban People's Republic was proclaimed by the Kuban Rada on 28 January 1918 and declared its independence on 16 February.

  • 1.1.Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War

    Local independence movement caused several secessions and revolts during the Russian Civil War.

    1.1.1.Pro-independence and White movements in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War

    Were a series of revolts and secessions in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War.

  • October 1919: The North Caucasian Emirate was a mainly Avar and Chechen Islamic state that existed in the territory of Chechnya and western Dagestan during the Russian Civil War from September 1919.
  • July 1921: The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was captured by Soviet Russian forces in 1921, who transformed it into the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

  • 1.1.2.Pro-independence movements in the Kuban region during the Russian Civil War

    Were a series of revolts and secessions in the Kuban Region during the Russian Civil War.


    1.2.South Russia 1919 campaign

    Was a military offensive by pro-White South Russia during the Russian Civil War.

  • March 1920: By the end of March 1920, Denikin's troops were retreating in the Caucasus and Port Petrovsk was abandoned to the advancing Red Army.

  • 2. World War I


    Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

    2.1.World War I eastern Front

    Was the theatre of war in eastern Europe during World War I.

    2.1.1.Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Brest Peace in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.

  • March 1918: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia declared independence as the Transcaucasian Commissariat.

  • 2.2.World War I Middle East Theatre

    Was the theatre of war in the Middle East during World War I.

    2.2.1.Caucasus campaign (World War I)

    Was an armed conflict mainly between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus area during World War I.

    2.2.1.1.Russian Conquest of Armenia

    Was the Russin offensive in Armenia during World War I.


    Disestablishment


  • July 1921: The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was captured by Soviet Russian forces in 1921, who transformed it into the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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