Date
|
Conflict
|
Location
|
Combatant 1
|
Combatant 2
|
Result
|
1916–1934
|
Central Asian Revolt
|
Central Asia
|
Russian Empire (until 1917)
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union (from 1922)
|
Basmachi
Khiva
Bukhara
Afghanistan
|
Victory
|
1924
|
August Uprising[citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Damkom
|
Victory
- The uprising is suppressed
- Consolidation of Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR
|
1925–1926
|
Urtatagai conflict
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Emirate of Afghanistan
|
Peace treaty
- Afghanistan forced to restrain Basmachi border raids
- Urtatagai captured, then ceded back to Afghanistan
|
1929
|
Sino-Soviet conflict
|
|
Soviet Union
|
China
|
Victory
- The provisions of the 1924 agreement are upheld
|
1929
|
Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)
Part of the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
|
|
Soviet Union
Amānullāh Khān
|
Basmachi
Saqqawists
|
The Soviet Union failed to change the situation in the country
|
1930
|
Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930)
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Basmachi
|
Victory
|
1932
|
Chechen uprising of 1932 [ru][citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Chechen rebels
|
Victory
- The uprising is suppressed
|
1932–1941
|
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
|
|
Soviet Union
Mongolia
|
Japan
Manchukuo
|
Victory
|
1934
|
Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
|
|
Soviet Union Xinjiang clique White Movement Torgut Mongols
|
China
|
Stalemate
|
(1936–39)
|
Spanish Civil War
|
Spain
|
Spain
Supported by: Soviet Union Mexico
Volunteers
|
Nationalist faction
Supported by: Italy Germany Portugal
|
Defeat
|
1937
|
Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang[citation needed]
|
|
Xinjiang
Soviet Union
White Movement
|
China
|
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)
|
|
Germany
Soviet Union
Slovakia
|
Poland
|
Victory
|
1939–1940
|
Winter War (Part of World War II)
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Finland
|
Inconclusive
|
1940
|
Occupation and annexation of the Baltic states (Part of World War II)
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
|
Victory
|
1940
|
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (part of World War II)
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Romania
|
Victory
|
1941–1945
|
World War II
|
|
Allied Powers:
Soviet Union
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
India
South Africa
Yugoslavia
Greece
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Mexico
|
Axis Powers:
Germany
Japan
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Slovakia
Croatia
Thailand
Manchukuo
Mengjiang
Wang Jingwei regime
|
Victory
|
1944–1960s
|
Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe[citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union East Germany Polish People's Republic Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Hungarian People's Republic Socialist Republic of Romania People's Republic of Bulgaria Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|
Ukrainian Insurgents Polish Insurgents Estonian Insurgents Latvian Insurgents Lithuanian Insurgents Bulgarian Insurgents Serbian Insurgents Croatian Insurgents Romanian Insurgents German Insurgents Hungarian Insurgents
|
Victory
- The independence movements are suppressed
- Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe preserved
|
1945
|
Soviet–Japanese War (Part of World War II)
|
|
Soviet Union
Mongolia
|
Japan
Manchukuo
|
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
|
|
France
State of Vietnam
Kingdom of Laos
Cambodia
|
Viet Minh
Khmer Issarak
Pathet Lao
Japan Japanese holdout
Supported by: Soviet Union China
|
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
|
|
North Korea
China
Soviet Union
|
United Nations
South Korea
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Belgium
Canada
France
Philippines
Colombia
Ethiopia
Greece
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
South Africa
Thailand
Turkey
|
Ceasefire
- Establishment of the Korean DMZ
- Minor territorial changes
|
1955–1975
|
Vietnam War
|
|
North Vietnam
Viet Cong and PRG
Pathet Lao
GRUNK (1970–1975)
Khmer Rouge
China
Soviet Union
North Korea
|
South Vietnam
United States
South Korea
Australia
New Zealand
Laos
Cambodia (1967–1970)
Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
Thailand
Philippines
|
Victory
|
1953
|
East German Uprising[citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union East Germany
|
East German demonstrators
|
Victory
- The uprising is suppressed
|
1956
|
Hungarian Revolution[citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union
ÁVH
|
Revolutionaries
|
Victory
- The revolution is suppressed
|
1961
|
Vlora Incident[citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union Warsaw Pact:[1][2] Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland
|
Albania
|
Soviet-Warsaw Pact defeat
|
1968
|
Invasion of Czechoslovakia[citation needed]
|
|
Soviet Union
Bulgaria
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Victory
|
1969
|
Sino-Soviet border conflict
|
|
Soviet Union
|
China
|
Victory (status quo ante bellum)[5]
|
1969–1970
|
War of Attrition
|
|
Egypt
Soviet Union
|
Israel
|
Inconclusive
- Continuation of Israeli occupation of Sinai
|
1975–1991
|
Angolan Civil War
|
|
MPLA
Cuba
Brazil
Soviet Union
SWAPO
MK
|
South Africa
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
|
Victory
|
1977–1978
|
Ethio-Somali War
|
|
Ethiopia
Cuba
South Yemen
Soviet Union
|
Somalia
WSLF
|
Victory
|
1979–1989
|
Soviet–Afghan War
|
|
Soviet Union
Soviet-controlled Afghanistan
|
Afghan Mujahideen
Saqqawists
|
Defeat
|