Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Mayu na 1917 manyan sassan sojojin Latvia sun canza amincinsu ga Bolsheviks. An san su da Red Latvian Riflemen (, ) kuma sun shiga cikin yakin basasa na Rasha. 'Yan bindigar sun taka rawar gani a cikin dakile tayar da kayar baya na Bolshevik a Moscow da Yaroslavl a 1918. Sun yi yaƙi da Denikin, Yudenich, da Wrangel. Bayan nasarar da aka samu a aikin Oryol-Kromy
a kan Denikin a watan Oktoba 1919 rukunin 'yan bindigar Latvia sun sami mafi girman girmamawa na soja a wancan lokacin: Jigon Jan Jigon VTsIK. Jukums Vācietis, tsoho ne a cikin 'yan bindigar Latvia ya zama babban kwamandan rundunar sojan Red Army.