# List of wars involving the Soviet Union

This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (30 December 1922 – 26 December 1991).
    Victory
    Defeat
    Another result*
*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.
| Date | Conflict | Location | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
| 1916–1934 | Central Asian Revolt Soviet troops on Turkestan front in 1922 | Central Asia | Russian Empire (until 1917)  Russian SFSR Turkestan ASSR Kirghiz ASSR  Soviet Union (from 1922) | Basmachi Khiva Bukhara Afghanistan | Victory The revolt is suppressed |
| 1924 | August Uprising | | 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 | Defeat Peace Treaty Urtatagui is seized back to Afghanistan Afghanistan agreement to restrain Basmachi border raids |
| 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 Kingdom of Afghanistan | Emirate of Afghanistan Saqqawists Basmachi | Defeat The Soviet Union failed to change the situation in the country Red Army withdrawal of Afghanistan back to the USSR Civil war continues Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) |
| 1930 | Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930) | | Soviet Union | Basmachi | Victory |
| 1932 | Chechen uprising of 1932 [ru] | | Soviet Union | Chechen rebels | Victory The uprising is suppressed |
| 1932–1941 | Soviet–Japanese border conflicts | | Soviet Union  Mongolia | Japan  Manchukuo | Victory Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact |
| 1934 | Soviet invasion of Xinjiang | | Soviet Union Xinjiang clique White Movement Torgut Mongols | China | Stalemate Xinjiang divided in two |
| (1936–39) | Spanish Civil War | Spain | Spain People's Army Popular Front UGT CNT-FAI Generalitat de Catalunya Euzko Gudarostea Supported by: Soviet Union Mexico Volunteers International Brigades | Nationalist faction FET y de las JONS FE de las JONS Requetés/CT CEDA Renovación Española Army of Africa Supported by: Italy Germany Portugal | Defeat Nationalist faction victory Fall of the Second Spanish Republic Beginning of Franco's regime |
| 1937 | Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang | | 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 Partition of Polish territory (Fourth Partition of Poland) between Nazi Germany, Soviet Union and Slovakia |
| 1939–1940 | Winter War (Part of World War II) | | Soviet Union | Finland | 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) | | Soviet Union | Estonia Latvia Lithuania | Victory Occupation and annexation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union by the Red Army |
| 1940 | Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (part of World War II) | | Soviet Union | Romania | 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:  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 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 Guerrilla war in Ukraine (Part of World War II from 1944 to 1945) Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) | | 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 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 |
| 1953 | East German Uprising | | Soviet Union East Germany | East German demonstrators | Victory The uprising is suppressed |
| 1956 | Hungarian Revolution | | Soviet Union ÁVH | Revolutionaries | Victory The revolution is suppressed |
| 1961 | Vlora Incident | | Soviet Union Warsaw Pact: Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland | Albania | Soviet-Warsaw Pact defeat Withdrawal of soviet marines and technicians Warsaw Pact capture of Pasha Liman Base failed |
| 1968 | Invasion of Czechoslovakia | | Soviet Union Bulgaria  East Germany Hungary Poland | Czechoslovakia | Victory The Prague Spring is suppressed Moscow Protocol Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991 |
| 1969 | Sino-Soviet border conflict | | Soviet Union | China | Victory (status quo ante bellum) Tactical Soviet victory Strategic Soviet victory: ceasefire agreement signed 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement |
| 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 Three Powers Accord Withdrawal of all foreign forces from Angola Independence of Namibia |
| 1977–1978 | Ethio-Somali War | | Ethiopia  Cuba  South Yemen  Soviet Union | Somalia WSLF | Victory Somalia breaks all ties with the Soviet Bloc |
| 1979–1989 | Soviet–Afghan War | | Soviet Union 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 |