The Bolsheviks began the year 1919 thinking the White movement was all but defeated. They were wrong.
Anton Denikin’s Armed Forces of South Russia would give them a nasty surprise, advancing hundreds of miles over the summer, until they were only about 200 miles from Moscow.
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Fanfare
Opening Theme
Mlada
Composed in 1890 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Public domain.
Performed by The University of Chicago Orchestra, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Source.
Closing Theme
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