a memorial for all wars: the Polynational War Memorial
 

LIST OF WARS

Wars since 1900

A list of all wars in the 20th and 21st centuries, based on data by COW, Prio and UCDP. See the source page or the FAQ for more information. See the new stats page for a summary of casualty data and nation-based stats. And get a preview of the experimental timeline of all wars since 1900. What's new? Check the update logs for 2018, 2017 and 2016 .

Soviet Union

Name of War   Years   Fatalities Type Mem. Note
Nagorno-Karabakh War 1990 - 2017 5,748 1 [1] U
Afghanistan Civil War 1978 - 2000 546,670 1 [4] U
Soviet Invasion of Hungary 1956 - 1956 3,171 1 [2]
Soviet Union vs Baltic Partisans (’’Forest Brethren’’) 1945 - 1951 32,400 1
Poland and Soviet Union vs Ukrainian Partisans 1945 - 1947 59,700 1
World War II 1939 - 1945 50,000,000 1 [36]
The Winter War in Finland 1939 - 1940 151,798 1 [1]
The battle of Khalkhin Gol 1939 - 1939 28,000 1
Changkufeng Incident 1938 - 1938 1,726 1
Xinjiang Muslim Revolt 1931 - 1934 21,000 1
Sino-Soviet war 1929 - 1929 3,200 1
Soviet-Turkestan War 1921 - 1923 3,500 1
Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917 - 1922 802,225 1 [1]
Kronstadt Rebellion 1921 - 1921 2,600 1
Conquest of Mongolia 1920 - 1921 4,000 1
Green Rebellion 1920 - 1921 6,700 1
Polish-Soviet War 1919 - 1920 100,000 1
Estonian Liberation War 1918 - 1920 11,750 1 [2]
Latvian Liberation 1918 - 1920 13,246 1

 

Note about search on a specific nation: results produced by this feature are incomplete and inconsistent and should be seen as a means to narrow down the list rather than anything else. Work is being done to correct mistakes and standardize the parameters. At the bottom of the list of countries are some nations that do not exist in a similar form today.

Note about search on a specific year: "ongoing armed conflict" does not imply that all of the conflicts presented for a specific year should be classified as war.

Note about search on a specific time period: finds all wars that started after a specific year (1st search parameter) and ended before a specific year (2nd param).

Note about categories: this new feature is currently being tested and the content of these categories may be incomplete or inconsistent. More categories will be added in the future.