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The Ukrainian People's Republic asks the Entente and the United States for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
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Ukrainian People's Republic
1917–18/1918–21 state in Eastern Europe
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Triple Entente
Early 20th-century understandings between France, Russia, and Great Britain
The Triple Entente describes the informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the Entente Cordiale of 1904 between France and Britain, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bolsheviks
Faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)