The causes of the Civil War
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- The causes of the Civil War
- The role of the Czech Legion
- Created in 1917 out of Austro-Hungarian Prisoners
- The rebellion of the Czech Legion on 25th May 1918 signalled the start of the Civil War
- The role of different nationalities
- Counter-revolutionary armies were established in Siberia, Estonia and in the Ukraine
- The Finns, Ukrainians and Poles wanted to create their own countries
- Led to them fighting against the Bolsheviks
- The role of foreign countries
- Britain and France support the Whites
- Sent troops into the war
- Supplied the Whites with supplies
- They wanted Russia to remain fighting in the war against Germany
- They didn’t want to see Russia fall to a communist regime
- Britain and France support the Whites
- The role of the Whites
- Lenin had to make Moscow the new capital of Russia as Petrograd was threatened by the Whites
- They wanted to remove the Bolsheviks from power and some even wanted to bring the back the Tsarist Regime
- The role of Communist Policies
- By 1918 Russia had become a one party state after the Ban on Factions
- Many Russian’s opposed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- The Bolsheviks started to clash with the peasantry
- Lenin introduced Grain requisitioning so the working class and those in the Red Army
- Peasants avoided conscription and tried to hoard their grain
- Resulted in famine in Petrograd and Moscow
- Peasants avoided conscription and tried to hoard their grain
- Lenin introduced Grain requisitioning so the working class and those in the Red Army
- The role of the Czech Legion
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