Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Republics of the Soviet Union, Mongolian People's Party, Kingdom of Finland (1918), Estonia, Republic of Estonia, Latvia, Republic of Latvia ⚔ Russian Empire, White Movement, Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Ottoman Empire, Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938), Republic of China (1912–1949)
Key battles
Battle of Kyiv (1918)
Battle of Cēsis (1919)
Battle of Paju (1919)
Battle of Warsaw (1920)
Kyiv offensive (1920)
Battle of the Niemen River (1920)
Battle of Komarów (1920)
Who lived through the Russian Civil War
Well-known people alive during 1917–1922:
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) — President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) — president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — Spanish artist (1904–1989)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Walt Disney (1901–1966) — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
George Orwell (1903–1950) — British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)