Who was involved in the Russian Civil War
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- Created on: 20-10-21 14:11
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- Who was involved in the Russian Civil War?
- Reds
- The Bolsheviks
- one aim: to stay in power
- ''Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
- formed by Kronstadt sailors and Red guards
- volunteers and soldiers from the disintegrating former imperial army
- Whites
- they were the liberals, former tsarists, nationalists and separatists, Social Revolutionaries and moderate socialists
- didn't want the tsar to return but were in favour of a military dictatorship until the Bolsheviks were defeated
- wanted law and order to be re-established
- SRs wanted the Constituent Assembly to run Russia
- largely only agreed and united by their anti-Bolshevik beliefs
- == very divided
- fought each other
- Greens
- peasant armies made up of deserters from other armies
- mostly concerned with protecting their own area from the other armies fighting each other
- swapped sides frequently
- more like groups of bandits
- Reds
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