REASONS FOR CIVIL WAR WIN

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  • Created on: 07-04-17 16:05
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  • Why the Communists won the Civil War
    • White weaknesses
      • Lacked a unified aim
      • Spread over a large amount of land-geographically divided
      • Failed to co-ordinate attacks
      • Lacked support from many Russians
      • Failed to work effectively with Greens
    • Red military strengths
      • Trotsky used officers who had fought with the Tar-experienced leader
      • Army controlled important railway routes
      • Successfully defeated each White army-stopped them working together
    • War Communism
      • Economic policies Communists introduced
      • Communists controlled industrial centres
      • Industry was nationalised and factories changed to make military supplies
      • Policy of requisitioning food from peasants t feed Red Army
    • Red leadership
      • Unified leadership under Lenin
        • Trotsky was also a very efficient leader
      • Trotsky enforced strict discipline
      • Lenin used Cheka to eliminate political opposition
    • Foreign intervention
      • End of 1919-Britain and France had left Russia
      • Foreign leaders realised the Whites would never win

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