Why did the Bolsheviks win the Civil War?
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- Created on: 25-10-22 11:24
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- Why did the Bolsheviks win the Civil War?
- They had a united opposition
- The whites had a divided opposition. The many groups within them all had different aims and therefore their fight was fragmented
- The location of their campaigns
- The reds controlled the centre and the all-important railway system.
- Control over the railways allowed them to move troops and supplies efficiently
- The whites on the other hand, were spread out all around the edges fof Russia and had to use less efficient methods to deliver supplies.
- Unable to communicate well and co-ordinate their offences against the Reds
- Trotsky defeated them 1 by 1
- Unable to communicate well and co-ordinate their offences against the Reds
- The reds controlled the centre and the all-important railway system.
- They made sure that the towns and armies were well-fed by forcinxg peasants to hand over food and by rationing supplies
- Therefore guaranteed support of the army, which meant that there would be no military mutiny. Protected Lenin's power.
- Propaganda
- They used a propaganda train to raise fears about the intentions of the foreign armies in the league with the Whites.
- False sense of national pride; the Red were fighting 'foreign powers'
- Also to raise fear about the possible return of Tsar + landlords
- They used a propaganda train to raise fears about the intentions of the foreign armies in the league with the Whites.
- They took over factories of Moscow and Petrograd to ensure steady supply of ammunition and equipment to army
- Red Terror
- 'If a regiment retreats against orders, machine guns are turned on them.'
- Furniture sale, payments by banks stopped
- Both of these are from observations of a British business man in Russia in 1918
- 'If a regiment retreats against orders, machine guns are turned on them.'
- Both of these are from observations of a British business man in Russia in 1918
- 'In the Red Army, for any military punishment, there is only 1 punishment, death.'
- Both of these are from observations of a British business man in Russia in 1918
- Both of these are from observations of a British business man in Russia in 1918
- The peasants saw them as lesser of two evils
- Red Terror highest execution figure was est. 50,,000 but White terror was 100,000
- Whites had limited support from Russian people
- If the whites won, the peasants thought the landlords would return.
- The peasants saw them as lesser of two evils
- Red Terror highest execution figure was est. 50,,000 but White terror was 100,000
- They had a united opposition
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