Armored Automobiles of the Russian Civil War
by Tom Hillman
Table of contents
Introduction – 6
Part I
Early Organization and Tactics of Armored Cars – 7
Tactics – 8
Considerations for Wargaming Armored Cars – 14
Red Guard, Red Army – 15
The Bolsheviks Takeover: November 1917 toMarch 1918 – 16
Birth of the Red Army: March toDecember 1918 – 20
Total War: 1919 – Battles of Orel and Petrograd – 22
The Year 1920 – Soviet Polish War and Battle of Kahhovha – 26
Volunteer Army and Armed Forces of South Russia – 32
Volunteer Army in the 1st and 2nd Kuban March – 33
Growth into the AFSR, Defending the Don Basin and Offensive Spring 1919 – 34
Battle of Orel and the Downfall of the AFSR – 38
All-Mighty Army of the Don – 43
Kuban Army – 46
Russian Army – 47
Reorganizing the remains of the AFSR – 47
Securing the Crimea and Breakout – 48
Kuban Landing and the Battle of Kakhovka – 50
Perekop and the End – 53
North And North-West White Armies – 55
East and Siberia – 57
Czechoslovak Legion – 58
German Army – 61
French Army – 63
Polish Army – 64
Latvia – 69
Lithuania – 70
Estonia – 71
Ukraine – 74
Finland – 76
Georgian Democratic Republic – 77
Azerbaijan Republic – 77
Republic of Armenia – 77
Part II (first hand accounts)
Armored Automobile "Kornilovets" – 78
Armored Automobile "Vityaz" – 81
On the Armored Car 'Verni" – 83
Part III The Armored Cars or "Armored Automobiles"
Austin Mk.1 or Series 1 – 104
Austin Series 2 – 105
Austin 3rd Series – 106
Garford Armored Car – 106
Izhorski "Fiat" – 111
Lanchester – 112
Peerless Anti-Aircraft Armored Cars – 114
Putilov Austin – 115
Sheffield-Simplex and Army Motor Lorry – 117
Ehrhardt E-V/4 1917 Armoured Car – 119
Ford Tfc (Ft-B) Armored Car – 121
Appendix 1: Armored Car Imports, Production 1914–1920 – 123
Appenidix 2: RCW Armored Car Kits – 124
Appendix 3: Painting And Suggested Paint Colors – 125
Primary References – 127