It was the deadliest peacetime disaster Catastrophe in Soviet Latvian history .

The war Military_operation involved Cause_to_be_included Latvia ( its provisional government supported Supporting by Estonia , Poland and the Western Allies—particularly the navy of United Kingdom ) against the Russian SFSR and the Bolsheviks ' short-lived Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic .

Eventually tensions flared up after a German coup against the Latvian government , leading to Causation open Openness war Military_operation .

Certain episodes of the Latvian Independence War Military_operation were also part of the Polish-Soviet War Military_operation , particularly the Battle Hostile_encounter of Daugavpils .