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69:newspapers
1277:Right SRs
1002:elections
821:Civil War
792:July Days
766:Civil War
587:guberniya
542:Petrograd
516:Petrograd
494:Petrograd
262:Opponents
216:Communism
177:1917–1918
150:Red flags
1310:Left SRs
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987:Red Army
935:Siberian
656:(1984).
584:Orenburg
573:partisan
478:Creation
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349:cossacks
345:peasants
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228:Far-left
211:Ideology
181:Red Army
162:RSDLP(b)
1112:Figures
1051:Parties
569:Soviets
531:English
409:Ukraine
405:Estonia
397:Finland
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234:Part of
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83:scholar
1059:Kadets
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925:Allied
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