why the reds won
- Created by: Caitlinmaskell
- Created on: 19-05-19 12:22
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- Civil war- why the reds won?
- leadership- role of trotsky
- whites had few competent leaders, either weren't disciplined or too disciplined leading to deserters
- Trotsky had little fighting experience but a skilful organiser and propagandaist
- he directed war from special train travelling to fronts w equiptmentto keep up morale
- he was ruthless, grain requisitioning use to feed army, used death penalty for disloyalty and desertions
- recruited 50,000 ex tsarist officers to train red army
- reintroduced traditional ranks and practices and used conscription
- geography
- bolsheviks held central areas including Moscow and Petrograd
- changed capital to Moscow, at the hub of railway network
- central areas heavily populated so could conscript easily
- whites were scattered, making communication and transportation hard
- unity and organisation
- reds shared same aim and goal- they were also v committed to their cause
- white generals operated independently and fought for different objectives
- support
- although green support varied, generally red land policies were more popular than whites associations tsarist policies
- so red had more peasant support as lenin legitimised their right to land
- whites lost national minority supporters wanted independence but not what whites offering. they were suspicious of slogans like Russia one and indivisible
- although green support varied, generally red land policies were more popular than whites associations tsarist policies
- leadership- role of trotsky
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