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The Russian Civil War 1918-20
- Reasons for the civil war
- Communist bid for
absolute authority
angered people
- crushing of the
Constituent
assembly
- outlawing of
other parties
- crushing of the
Constituent
assembly
- Lenin wanted one to consolidate power
- would wipe out political/military opponents
- would wipe out political/military opponents
- Communist bid for
absolute authority
angered people
- warring groups
- Reds : Bolsheviks
- Whites:
monarchists/outlawed
parties
- Greens : national minorities
- Reds : Bolsheviks
- reasons for war
- Reds: a 'class struggle'
to save the revolution
- Greens: establish independence
- Czech legion
- fought on russian side in wwi to gain independdence from austria hungary
- were isolated after treaty of brest litovsk
- were isolated after treaty of brest litovsk
- aimed to eventually join allies on
western front to gain support for
independence
- journied east to Vladivostok
- fought on russian side in wwi to gain independdence from austria hungary
- Czech legion
- a war about food
- failure of new regime to end hunger
- loss of Ukraine
- JUNE 1918: workforce in
petrograd shrunk by 60%
- MARCH 1918: lowest ever
allocation bread rationing: 50
grams per day
- failure of new regime to end hunger
- Whites: revolutionaries
wanting to seize power
from Bolsheviks
- SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES
- tried to organise anti
bolshevik coup in moscow
which failed
- 2 attempts on Lenin's life
- tried to organise anti
bolshevik coup in moscow
which failed
- SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES
- Reds: a 'class struggle'
to save the revolution
- Spread of armed resistance
- Whites
- Volunteer army set up in caucasus region by
kadets and loyalists
- Led by Denikin- Kornilov supporter
- Led by Denikin- Kornilov supporter
- Siberia: tsarist army set up
- led by Kolchak
- led by Kolchak
- Estonia: tsarist army set up
- led by Yudenich
- led by Yudenich
- Volunteer army set up in caucasus region by
kadets and loyalists
- demonstrated how
limited Bolshevik
control was in 1917
- Whites
- BOLSHEVIK VICTORY
- White weakness
- geography
- supplies
- depended on abroad
- Reds accused them of
being in league with
interventionalists
- unreliable
- Reds accused them of
being in league with
interventionalists
- depended on abroad
- morale/leadership
- lacked good leadership
- no sense of purpose, too divided
- morale low
- lacked good leadership
- geography
- Reds' strength
- Geography
- concentrated central area
- Petrograd/Moscow
- industrial centres
- industrial centres
- concentrated central area
- supplies
- control of Petrograd and
moscow= ready resources
- control of Petrograd and
moscow= ready resources
- morale/leadership
- Trotsky
- strategy
- defend internal lines of communication
- prevents Whites from recieving supplies/concenyrating forces
- defend internal lines of communication
- utilized railways
- organized red army
- strategy
- morale high
- sense of
purpose/belief in
victory
- Trotsky
- Geography
- White weakness
- treatment of the peasants
- Reds
- used terror to crush opposition
- offered enlistment or execution
- lost peasant sympathy
- used terror to crush opposition
- Whites
- also ill treated local populations
- could only offer a return to pre-revolutionary past which peasants feared
- also ill treated local populations
- Reds
- effects of civil war on Bolsheviks
- toughness
- authoritarianism
- centralisation
- power moved into the hands of
the Politburo and Orgburo
- power moved into the hands of
the Politburo and Orgburo
- toughness
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