In 1918 Siberian anti-Bolshevik established a coalition government before Kolchak was installed as leader following a British-back coup. Kolchak’s governmental power quickly turned into a dictatorship he promised to remove non-Bolshevik from power however his campaign also extended to non-Bolshevik socialists, thousands of whom were murdered during Kolchak’s rule. In in march1919 Kolchak’s my began westward pushing into Bolshevik held territory he captured and held territory as far as Kazan and Samar. By late 1919 Kolchak was extremely unpopular, with both the Russians under his or her rule and the foreign governments who had backed him. In 1920 Kolchak was betrayed and handed over to local Bolshevik in Irkutsk he was Interrogated and executed by a firing squad. General Nikolai Yudenich was the oldest of the white military commanders he controlled the white army forces that were in the north-western part of Russia. …show more content…
Yudenich who was 40 at the time and an army veteran Yudenich was leading operations against the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus when the revolution began. He was forced into retirement by Kerensky and spent much of 1918 year hiding from the Bolshevik by late 1918 Yudenich had reappeared to resume his control of the anti-Bolshevik forces along the Baltic coast. He was supported by the British to launch an attack on Petrograd in October 1919. With much of the red army occupied in Siberia and southern Russia, Yudenich’s offensive was very nearly successful, coming within just a few miles of the Capital. Yudenich forces was later pushed back due to failure of capturing the railways which allowed the Bolshevik to quickly get reinforcements. The general himself later fled the region with his bags filled with cash supplied by foreign governments. The failure of the white army and their commanders mainly were caused by the white forces because they were divided,