Second Gjorkan Civil War

Second Gjorkan Civil War
(Clockwise from top) Execution of deserters by Loyalist Forces, Volunteers leaving to join the Revolutionary Fight, Captured Trench filled with dead Socialists, Ruins of Nomakoa following the capture of the city by Revolutionary Forces, Burning of the Gjorkan Royal Palace as Revolutionary and Loyalist Forces fight for control of Gjorka City .
Date 23 May 1911 – 11 November 1919 (8 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Location Gjorka Result Revolutionary Victory End of the First Gjorkan Republic Establishment of military rule Start of resistance movements
Belligerents
Loyalists Loyalist Army Loyalist Militas	Revolutionaries Blue Militias Revolutionary Army Socialist Militias (Until 1917)	Socialists (From 1917) Socialist Militias Gjorkan People's Army Supported by: Ajakanistan
Commanders and leaders
Noel Mitchell  † John Griffith	Éamon de Valera Joseph Vanderburg George Cox †	Colm Kilpatrick Cody Murray
Strength
3,100,000 soldiers (peak)	6,000,000 soldiers (peak)	2,000,000 soldiers (peak)
Casualties and losses
900,000 dead 3,500,000 wounded	1,000,000 dead 4,500,000 wounded	500,000 dead 1,000,000 wounded
Civilians: 400,000 dead, Unknown wounded

The Second Gjorkan Civil War (Gjorkan: Dara Cogadh Cathartha Gjorkan) was an armed conflict in Gjorka fought initially between the Government Loyalists and the Revolutionaries. Later the conflict became a three sided war when the Socialists joined the war following the overthrow of the revolutionary government. The war is the bloodiest conflict in Gjorkan history, and saw the deaths of nearly 2.4 million soldiers and over 400 thousand civilians, approximately 7% of the Gjorkan population at the time.

Background

First Gjorkan Republic

Main article: First Gjorkan Republic

The First Gjorkan Republic was established in 1775 following the end of the First Gjorkan Civil War and the dissolution of the Gjorkan monarchy. The First Republic was initially established as a parliamentary republic with the Congress of Gjorka serving as the democratically elected legislature. The only other main body within the First Republic's government was the High Court of Gjorka, a court of six judges who oversaw the country's judicial system.

Throughout the First Republic's early years, it maintained a stable parliamentary democracy with a relatively stable separation of power between the High Court and the Congress. However, tension began to rise within the Congress as two factions began forming. The Merchant faction represented the ruiling merchant aristocracy of the country who had taken power in the civil war, while the Commoner faction represented the working class of the nation, particularly farmers. As the Commoner faction began accruing more seats in the Congress, the Merchant controlled High Court began to take more power for themselves, including the ability to rule laws passed by the Congress as "unconstitutional".

This tensions between the Commoners and the Merchants eventually boiled over in the 1850 election which saw the Gjorkan Party (a Commoner party) gain a majority in the Congress over the National Party (a Merchant party). The High Court, fearing the power of a Commoner-controlled Congress, issued a decree dissolving the Congress and declared the Gjorkan Party to be a treasonous organization. Most of the Congress were arrested by local police and military units and the Commoners were unable to mount a sufficient response to the High Court's coup leading to the creation of an oligarchical dictatorship.

Rising Tensions

See also: Gjorkan revolutionary period and Gjorkan Labor Wars

Blue Revolution

Main article: Blue Revolution

Early war

Soldiers leaving to join the Revolution

Late war

Socialist split

See also: 1917 Gjorkan coup d'etat

Revolutionary Soldiers patrolling the street following the Coup d'etat

Surrender of the Loyalists

Nomakoa following it's capture by Revolutionary Forces

Legacy

Film

The War was depicted a number of times during the military government in use as propaganda films. Following the Black Revolution, and the re-establishment of democracy the war became a taboo subject in film making. A big budget film about the war wasn't produced until 2019 when 1917 was released which grossed over a billion pón making it the highest grossing film that year.