Russian civil war
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- Created on: 25-04-15 22:04
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- Civil War
- Whites
- Aims
- get rid of the bolsheviks
- many different aims
- Leadership
- 3 main leaders
- didn't communicatewith eachother
- 3 different armies
- soldiers were untrained
- 3 main leaders
- geography
- didnt have a major city
- spread out across russia
- harder to communicate
- half hearted foreign support
- only weapons, no troops (tired from WWI)
- uk, usa & france
- made it easier for the reds to create anti-whites propaganda
- Aims
- Reds
- Aims
- place Bolsheviks in power
- Leadership
- trotsky
- 50,000 ex tsar officers to train soldiers
- conscription
- propaganda train
- battle at petrograd
- war commissar threated soldiers & their families iff deserted
- trotsky
- geography
- grouped together
- petrograd & moscow
- control railways & factories
- petrograd & moscow
- Aims
- War communism
- cause
- land &factories given to peasants/ workers but they dont know how to manage a farm/factory
- production falls
- land &factories given to peasants/ workers but they dont know how to manage a farm/factory
- towns
- govt took control of factories
- told factories what to produuce
- old factory owners put in charge
- strict discipline
- no trade unions
- work report cards
- work hard get rations, don't work hard...
- govt took control of factories
- countryside
- requisitioning squads seized grain (left peasants with just enough to eat) punished them for hoarding
- results
- peasants stopped producing large amounts of food
- 1913- 80 million tons of grain ---1912-37.6 million
- famine killed 5 million-- some resorted to cannibalism
- money became worthless
- goods were traded on the black markert
- middle& upperclass sold everything
- goods were traded on the black markert
- peasants stopped producing large amounts of food
- opposition
- workers opposition
- higher wages
- more food
- workers control of factories
- kronstadt naval mutiny-- uprising by sailors
- shocked the govt
- 200,000 injured or killed by govt forces
- workers opposition
- cause
- Whites
- NEP/ new economic policy
- main features
- grain requisitioning stopped
- peasants had to give a fixed amount as tax to the govt
- any extra grain could be sold on the open market
- peasants had to give a fixed amount as tax to the govt
- traders could now buy and sell goods
- smaller factories especially consumer products were returned to their former owners
- allowed to sell the goods they made and make a profit
- larger industries e.g. coal, steel and transport remained under state control. some factories were allowed to sell their profits
- grain requisitioning stopped
- successes
- electricity introduced to russia
- western countries now willing to trade with capitalist russia
- failures
- not communism
- NEPmen made huge profits buying goods & selling them at a higher price
- Civil War
- Whites
- Aims
- get rid of the bolsheviks
- many different aims
- Leadership
- 3 main leaders
- didn't communicatewith eachother
- 3 different armies
- soldiers were untrained
- 3 main leaders
- geography
- didnt have a major city
- spread out across russia
- harder to communicate
- half hearted foreign support
- only weapons, no troops (tired from WWI)
- uk, usa & france
- made it easier for the reds to create anti-whites propaganda
- Aims
- Reds
- Aims
- place Bolsheviks in power
- Leadership
- trotsky
- 50,000 ex tsar officers to train soldiers
- conscription
- propaganda train
- battle at petrograd
- war commissar threated soldiers & their families iff deserted
- trotsky
- geography
- grouped together
- control railways & factories
- Aims
- War communism
- cause
- land &factories given to peasants/ workers but they dont know how to manage a farm/factory
- production falls
- land &factories given to peasants/ workers but they dont know how to manage a farm/factory
- towns
- govt took control of factories
- told factories what to produuce
- old factory owners put in charge
- strict discipline
- no trade unions
- work report cards
- work hard get rations, don't work hard...
- govt took control of factories
- countryside
- requisitioning squads seized grain (left peasants with just enough to eat) punished them for hoarding
- results
- peasants stopped producing large amounts of food
- 1913- 80 million tons of grain ---1912-37.6 million
- famine killed 5 million-- some resorted to cannibalism
- money became worthless
- goods were traded on the black markert
- middle& upperclass sold everything
- goods were traded on the black markert
- peasants stopped producing large amounts of food
- opposition
- workers opposition
- higher wages
- more food
- workers control of factories
- kronstadt naval mutiny-- uprising by sailors
- shocked the govt
- 200,000 injured or killed by govt forces
- workers opposition
- cause
- Whites
- main features
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