All orders of battle merely give a
snapshot of the army at one point in time: and the Russian Civil War even more so than
most wars. What lists we have tend to be associated with a reorganisation, so are much better
evidence for the months following than for the months preceding them.
The orbats I have chosen are
largely those where there are numbers attached, which allows gamers to gauge some idea
of the relative balance of infantry:cavalry:MGs:guns.
Whites in South Russia
The AFSR was divided into some major groupings. Here are those
front-line portions to the east (that is excluding the Ukraine, where
the Volunteer Army portion was) at the time of the rejig in Autumn 1919. The AFSR was pretty much at its peak at this time:
Anti-Bolshevik forces on the Estonian/Petrograd Front
This is the White Russian units operating on the Estonian border up to
May 1919.
(Maps showing the Northern Corps' position in May and the extent of
their offensive can be found in the
maps
section.)
By late 1919 the Whites in this area were called the North-Western
Army, and under the command of General Iudenich. Although not
actually doing much fighting, their reluctant Estonian allies propped
up the southern wing. This is the list of units pretty much at the peak
of the second drive on Petrograd.
Anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia
The short-lived KOMUCH was never a great power but its campaigning in
co-ordination with the Czech Legion was the first serious threat to
Soviet power. Information about the People's Army is hard to find,
hated as it was by adherents of the extremist elements that came to
dominate the early writing up of the war, both Red and White.
Red Army
A bit of a resource for tracking down Soviet Cavalry divisions:
especially useful for when they changed names.
NDA Belorussian Campaign 1920
There is an orbat for brief attack near Mozyr' by the Russian Peoples'
Volunteer Army under the command of Bulak-Balakhovich:
Polish-Soviet War 1920
I have assembled an orbat for the Poles in August 1920 at the Battle of
Warsaw, which includes the numbers for most divisions taken from
Sikorski:
For the Battle of Komarów (also known as Cześniki) see my
article in the history section:
Ukrainian Nationalists
There is an orbat for the Galician Ukrainians:
Freikorps in the Baltic
Various orbats can be found in my section on that war: