During May and June 1918 in Samara, KOMUCH (Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly) -a moderate socialist government with pretensions to national legitimacy -emerged to compete with the even more anti-Bolshevik but autonomist-minded Provisional Siberian Government (PSG) in Omsk for leadership of the White cause. White resistance to Soviet rule was also mounting along the Volga and in western Siberia, as well as in the Cossack regions of southern Russia. Horvath, manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, to help coordinate the anti-Bolshevik forces in Manchuria. But he responded with alacrity to the invitation of General Dimitry L. At the time of the Bolshevik seizure of power in October, Kolchak was abroad. Kolchak continued to serve under the Provisional Government following the February Revolution of 1917, but resigned his command when discipline broke down in his ranks. By July 1916 he merited promotion to vice-admiral and command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. After a tour in the Pacific Fleet and participation in scientific expeditions to the Far North, he saw active duty during the Russo-Japanese War (1904 –1905). (1873 –1920), admiral, supreme ruler of White forces during the Russian civil war.įollowing his father's example, Alexander Kolchak attended the Imperial Naval Academy, and graduated second in his class in 1894.
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