Column

The 5 Worst Intra State Wars, 1818-2014
Name Side A Side B Start Yr Deaths
Chinese Civil War phase 2 of 1945-1950 China CCP 1945 1,200,000
Russian Civil War of 1917-1920 Russia Anti-Bolsheviks 1917 1,029,225
U.S. Civil War of 1861-1865 United States of America Confederate States of America 1861 618,000
Chinese Civil War phase 1 of 1930-1936 China Chinese Workers 1930 400,000
Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 Spain Falange 1936 309,400

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Countries in conflict

India

Wars over time

Notes

NOTES

Data on civil wars is from Correlates of War: Intra-States War Data (v5.1)

https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/cow-war/