CAUSES OF RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
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- Created on: 07-04-17 15:22
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- Causes of the Russian Civil War
- Beginning of the Civil War
- Rebellion of the Czech Legion-May 1918 signalled the start of the war
- Summer 1918-counter revolutionary armies set up in Siberia, Estonia and in the Ukraine
- Not obvious that the Reds would win-at the start
- Reds only occupied 1/5 of Russia
- Lenin forced to make Moscow Russia's new capital
- Whites threatened Petrograd
- Red, White and Green
- Opposition to the Communists known as the 'WHITES'
- Supreme Ruler-Admiral Kolchak
- Communist forces known as the 'REDS'
- Head of the Red Army-Trotsky
- Another group who opposed both White and Red known as the 'GREENS'
- Supported economic power being given to peasants
- Opposition to the Communists known as the 'WHITES'
- Causes
- Russia had become a one party state-other parties wanted to remove Bolsheviks
- Others wanted to return to the Tsarist regime or the Prov Gov
- Britain and France feared the emergence of Communism
- Sent troops and aid to the Whites which allowed Civil War to develop
- Many different nationalities wanted to create their own countries
- Bolsheviks started to clash with peasantry
- Russia had become a one party state-other parties wanted to remove Bolsheviks
- Beginning of the Civil War
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