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to find and prove a concrete date of the beginning of the Civil War and it’s better to speak about the gradual involvement of the people in it. In any case, a set of events of May and Summer of 1918 — the Czech Legion uprising, foreign intervention, the extraordinary policy of the Soviet state in the countryside and its attempt to split the peasantry, and the peasant’s revolts and formation of the anti-Bolshevik governments, military units and armies meant that Russia was really involved in a full-scaled, cruel and bloody Civil War. Chapter Three is devoted to the modern conceptions and definitions of the Russian Civil war. I t’s another polemical question for debate. For the most part, historians criticize the orthodox Soviet conception about the Civil War in Russia as a military class struggle between the working class and the peasantry, on the one side, and bourgeoisie and landlords, on the other, between Red Army, on the one hand, and the white armies on the other. The second half of 1980s and 1990s was a time for Russian historians to develop their own conceptual frameworks rather than elaborate on official Soviet interpretations. The author tries to characterize different theoretical approaches and understandings of the Russian Civil war as a complex military, political, ideological, social, national and international phenomenon, as a set of wars including many smaller civil wars. The subject of the historiographical analysis in the next chapter is the positions and behavior of the different classes and social groups, the struggle and conflicts inside them, and their relationship to the Soviet and anti-Bolshevik governments. The scholars focused on neglected subjects of the history: peasant rebellion movement and wars; workers’ protests not only against the Whites, but also against Soviets; Cossack persecution (raskazachivanie); impact or lack of impact of the intelligentsia, etc. From the author’s point of view, an explorations of the social history of the civil war has been quite fruitful. Foreign intervention in the Russian Civil war is another complicated problem and a permanent subject for polemical debate. The modem historical literature on this subject, both Russian and Western, and the attempts of reappraisal and proper understanding of this problem are analyzed in the research. The origins, causes and plans of the Allied and