This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (1922–1991).
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*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside the Soviet Union, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
List Date Conflict Location Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result 1916–1934 Central Asian Revolt Central Asia Russian Empire (until 1917)
Turkestan ASSR Kirghiz ASSR (from 1922) Basmachi Khiva Bukhara Afghanistan Victory The revolt is suppressed 1924 August Uprising Damkom Victory The uprising is suppressed Consolidation of Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR 1925–1926 Urtatagai conflict Emirate of AfghanistanDefeat Peace Treaty Urtatagui is seized back to Afghanistan Afghanistan agreement to restrain Basmachi border raids 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict Victory The provisions of the 1924 agreement are upheld 1929 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)Part of the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) Kingdom of Afghanistan Emirate of Afghanistan Saqqawists
BasmachiDefeat The Soviet Union failed to change the situation in the country Red Army withdrawal from Afghanistan back to the USSR Civil war in Afghanistan continues 1930 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930) Basmachi Victory 1932 Chechen uprising of 1932 Chechen rebels Victory The uprising is suppressed 1932–1941 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts Victory Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact 1934 Soviet invasion of Xinjiang Xinjiang clique White MovementTorgut Mongols Stalemate Xinjiang divided in two 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War Spain Spain People's Army Popular Front UGT CNT-FAI Generalitat de Catalunya Euzko Gudarostea Supported by: Volunteers Nationalist faction
Requetés/CT CEDA
Army of Africa Supported by: Italy Germany PortugalDefeat Nationalist faction victory Fall of the Second Spanish Republic Beginning of Franco's regime 1937 Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang Xinjiang
White Movement Victory Rebellion is suppressed Establishment of the rule of Sheng Shicai's Soviet puppet regime over the whole territory of Xinjiang province 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland (Part of World War II) Poland Victory Occupation of Polish territory by Nazi Germany, Soviet Union and Slovakia Annexation of Soviet-occupied territory into the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR (except for part of the Vilnius Region) 1939–1940 Winter War (Part of World War II) Inconclusive Soviet invasion of Finland repelled and the planned conquest of Finland fails Moscow Peace Treaty Cession of the Gulf of Finland islands, Karelian Isthmus, Ladoga Karelia, Salla, and Rybachy Peninsula, and lease of Hanko to the Soviet Union Expulsion of the Soviet Union from the League of Nations 1940 Occupation and annexation of the Baltic states (Part of World War II) Victory Occupation and annexation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union 1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (part of World War II) Victory Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region annexed into the Soviet Union; formation of the Moldavian SSR 1941–1945 World War II Allied Powers:
Yugoslavia Axis powers:
Wang Jingwei regime Victory Debellation of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers Beginning of the Cold War 1944–1960s Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) Guerrilla war in Ukraine (Part of World War II from 1944 to 1945) Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany Ukrainian insurgents Polish insurgents Estonian insurgents Latvian insurgents Lithuanian insurgents Bulgarian insurgents Serbian insurgents Croatian insurgents Romanian insurgents German insurgents Hungarian insurgents Victory The insurgencies are suppressed Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe preserved 1945 Soviet–Japanese War (Part of World War II) Victory Karafuto Prefecture annexed into the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian SFSR The Kuril Islands annexed into the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Russian SFSR The liberation of Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and northern Korea, and the collapse of the Japanese puppet states therein The partition of the Korean Peninsula; the Soviet Union occupies North Korea Manchuria and Inner Mongolia returned to China 1946–1954 First Indochina War Viet Minh Khmer Issarak Pathet Lao Japanese holdout Supported by: Victory Withdrawal of French forces from Indochina Democratic Republic of Vietnam independence recognized State of Vietnam, Kingdom of Laos and Kingdom of Cambodia achieve independence Vietnam was partitioned between North (controlled by the Việt Minh) and South (controlled by the State of Vietnam) 1950–1953 Korean War Ceasefire Establishment of the Korean DMZ Minor territorial changes 1955–1975 Vietnam War Viet Cong and PRG Pathet Lao GRUNK Khmer Rouge Cambodia Victory Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina North Vietnamese victory over South Vietnam Dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam South Vietnam annexed by North Vietnam Soviet-aligned communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Hungary Poland Czechoslovakia Victory The Prague Spring is suppressed Moscow Protocol Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict Victory (status quo ante bellum) Tactical Soviet victoryKuisong p.29 Strategic Soviet victory: ceasefire agreement signed 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement 1967–1970 War of Attrition Inconclusive 1975–1991 Angolan Civil War MPLA SWAPO MK UNITA FNLA FLEC Victory Three Powers Accord Withdrawal of all foreign forces from Angola Independence of Namibia 1977–1978 Ethio-Somali War Ethiopia Somalia WSLF Victory Somalia breaks all ties with the Soviet Bloc 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Afghan Mujahideen Defeat Failure to suppress the Afghan mujahideen insurgency Geneva Accords of 1988 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Beginning of the Afghan Civil War
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