Battle of Tsaritsyn
July 1, 1918 – January 1, 1920 · Tsaritsyn
Result White victory in 1919; Bolshevik victory in 1920
Prolonged struggle (July 1918 - January 1920; month precision) for Tsaritsyn, a strategic Volga port. Red forces under Stalin and Voroshilov held the city in 1918; Denikin's Whites captured it in June 1919; the Red Army recaptured it in January 1920.
Reds
Whites
Whites
Don Army and Armed Forces of South Russia
Joseph Stalin
Political commissar, Lenin's plenipotentiary in South Russia; clashed with Trotsky over the use of former tsarist officers
Kliment Voroshilov
military commander
Semyon Budyonny
Red cavalry commander, Fought at Tsaritsyn; later commanded the 1st Cavalry Army
Andreï Snesarev
military commander
