The Year 1917
In Finland, Red Guards begin killing anti-Bolsheviks in Malmi. At Helsingfors, Red Guards arrested 200 organizers of the Home Guard.
On the Western Front, anti-Bolshevik shock troops, supported by an armored train were retreating between Novgorod and Bologoe. Near Kozhenkino station, Red armored train No.2 captured the White train and disarmed the crew. It was renamed Imeni Raskolnikov (In memory of Raskolnikov).
On the Romanian Front, at Odessa, numbers of Romanian troops joined the Red Guards, while loyal Romanian units bravely held their positions.
On 17 November, General Denikin issued orders forbidding troops be sent to Petrograd. At Petrograd, Bolshevik leader L.B. Kamenev and his supporters resigned from the Central Committee and from Lenin 's government.
In Finland, German submarine U.57 landed a small party of Finnish Jaegers, quantities of arms and a radio transmitter near Lovisa to support anti-Bolshevik Finns. On her return voyage she was reported missing on the 19th, probably lost on mines. A general strike was called in Finland.
On the Caucasian Front, at Baku, a Soviet of Workers', Soldiers' and Sailors' Deputies issued a proclamation calling on the people of Baku to support the new Bolshevik regime in Petrograd, threatening repression of counter-revolutionaries.
In the Don, at Novocherkassk, the embryonic Volunteer Army now had only forty officers in its ranks. General Alekseev asked for assistance from Generals Shcherbachev, Ruszkiy and Radko-Dmitriev. Only Shcherbachev refused to help.
At Tsaritsyn, Red Guards seized control of this key city on the Volga.
On 18 November, in Moscow, Red Guards were now firmly in control of the city.
In the Far East, Bolsheviks in Vladivostok succeeded in winning a small majority in the executive committee of the Soviet. There was a danger of a Bolshevik takeover of the city and port.
On 19 November, at Petrograd, the Bolsheviks issued an offer to the Central Powers for an immediate armistice on all fronts for the purpose of discussing a democratic peace.
At Petrograd, Red Guards arrested V.N. Purishkevich, the ultra-reactionary leader of the virulently anti-Semitic Black Hundreds (“True Russians”).
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