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Baltic Fleet during the October Revolution and Russian Civil War

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only if their orders did not contradict the decrees of the Petrograd Soviet. It also called on units to elect representatives to the Soviet and for each unit to elect a sailor/soldier committee which would run the unit. In consequence, the Baltic Fleet had over 500 ship sailor committees, 200 port
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the ships were literally frozen into the ice or in docks for repair. Summer 1917 was just as passive: the Russian command (
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Fleet of ships that played an important role during the October Revolution and Russian Civil War
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in March 1917. It is translated in Boyd, "The Origins of Order Number 1," 359-360.
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Baltic Fleet electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
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and 150 coastal defense soldier committees. in April 1917, the
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Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands
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during the October Revolution and Russian Civil War
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Russian
October Revolution
Baltic Fleet
Bolsheviks
Russian Civil War
intervention forces
Kronstadt rebellion
World War I
Helsingfors
Reval
Kronstadt
Stavka
Petrograd
February Revolution
Baltic Fleet Mutiny
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Adrian Nepenin
Arkady Nebolsin
Petrograd Soviet
Order No. 1
Russian Provisional Government
soviet
Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet
Operation Albion
Battle of Moon Sound
Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet
British campaign in the Baltic (1918–19)
Baltic Fleet electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
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