Russian Civil war 1917-21
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- Created on: 10-05-16 11:11
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- Russian Civil War : 1917-21
- Whites
- Bolsheviks opponents, including ex-Tsarists, and political parties who had been suppressed
- Weaknesses
- The various White armies fought as separate detachments
- Weren't bound by a single aim
- The various White armies fought as separate detachments
- Unwilling to sacrifice individual interests
- Russia's geography
- Too reliant on foreign supplies
- Lacked leaders like Trotsky
- Reds
- The Bolshevik army
- Strengths
- Controlled a central area of western Russia with good communication and supply lines
- Kept hold of the administrative centers of Russia (Moscow + Petrograd)
- Controlled the railway network
- Held industrial areas, gave them access to munitions and resources
- Trotsky
- Abolished trade unions
- Brought workers under the same discipline as the military
- Tolerated no opposition from reds
- Death sentence for desertion or disloyalty
- Returned to pre-revolution ranking system
- Abolished trade unions
- Greens
- National minorities trying to get independence e.g. Czechs
- Only wanted independence for particular regions meant they never formed a common challenge to the reds
- Whites
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