The Oktoberkreig was a violent internal conflict within the French Empire's Eastern Department during the late 1920's and the early 1930's. The civil conflict, which draws its name from the German October War, was begun with the execution of populist Russian political leader Dmitri Dagadev on September 8, 1928. Shortly thereafter, mass uprisings began across beleaugured, impoverished and long-abused Old Russia, soon giving the appearance of a fully-fledged civil war ongoing in the East.