Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin basasa, Kurochkin ya ga aikin da aka yi wa Janar Pyotr Krasnov a kusa da Gatchina, da tsoma bakin Birtaniya da Amurka a arewa da Janar Nikolai Yudenich a shekarar 1919. Ya umurci rundunar sojan doki a yakin Poland da Soviet kuma ya shiga cikin murkushe Tambov Rebellion
a shekara ta 1921.