On this day 107 years ago, on May 31, 1918 (April 22, 1918), Russia faced the grim situation of civil war. Cossacks in the Russian White Army show the murdered Bolsheviks On May 31, Russia may have signed a peace treaty with the Allied powers, but Russia did not get peace. Foreign armies are re-invading Russia, and Russian society has been divided in a fierce civil war. Peter Krasnov, the new leader of the Cossack army in the Don region, is organizing a massive resistance against the Bolsheviks. In alliance with General Denikin, he controls most of the territory from German occupation to the Volga River. The Cossack army has cut off Moscow's main supply line. The Bolshevik army loyal to Generals Joseph Stalin and Voroshilov captured Tsaritsyn and tried to reopen the transport line. Leon Trotsky's plan to dismantle the Czechoslovak Volunteer Corps had the opposite effect, and they were now a serious threat to the Red Army. This group of ragged vagabonds and prisoners of war had been organized to fight the Germans. Now they joined forces with the Social Democratic opposition government from the revolutionaries in Samara and took control of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Urals. In the Siberian city of Omsk, the former naval commander Alexander Kolchak had formed another government. All the gold bars of the Russian Imperial Bank had fallen into the hands of the anti-Bolshevik White Army. In addition to the civil war, the German, British, and Turkish armies were advancing towards Russia in the north, west, and southwest. The expansion of communist power during the Russian Civil War