The Alaskan Wars (Russian: Аляскинские войны, Alyaskinskiye voyny) were a series of revolutions and civil wars which took place across contemporary Alaska between 1917 until 1942. These wars were in direct to World War I and growing resentment towards the Russian Empire. Originally and war of independence, the subsequent revolution and collapse of the Russian Empire spilled over into a decades-long civil war between the pro-independence colonists (colloquially referred to as the Blues), the pro-imperial refugees (the Whites), and pro-communist revolutionaries (the Reds).