Why was there a civil war in Russia?
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- Created on: 12-03-17 10:40
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- Why was there a civil war in Russia?
- The collapse of the Russian empire
- Russia began to split apart before the collapse of the Provisional Government
- Lenin decreed territories were free to leave Russia Nov 1917
- Many territories declared themselves independent of the RSFSR
- Soviets took over large areas and often pursued own policies
- Central Siberian Region Soviet rejected peace with Germany
- 33 sovereign governments June 1918
- Political opposition
- Bolshevik actions/policies first few months made them enemies
- Union for the Defence of the Motherland and LIberty
- Organised 3 armed revolts July 1918 and the murder of the German ambassador
- Fellow Mensheviks, socialists and SRs joined opponents when banned from Executive Committee of the Soveits (June 1918)
- Union for the Defence of the Motherland and LIberty
- Bolshevik actions/policies first few months made them enemies
- Allied opposition
- 10/11/1917- Morning Post in London called for direct military action against the Bolsheviks
- 23/11/1917 - Trotsky published the 'secret treaties' signed by the Tsar with Allies during war
- Showed Allies planned to seize territory when Germany and her allies were defeated
- Were not fighting for democracy as they pretended
- Bolsheviks seized all foreign property & cancelled Tsar's debts to the Allies
- Showed Allies planned to seize territory when Germany and her allies were defeated
- Brest-Litovsk Treaty
- Breakdown of law and order
- British Ambassador: 'Russian idea of liberty is to take things easy...'
- Russians from all background horrified by lawlessness
- Frenchman: 'Violence or the threat if it seemed everywhere that winter...'
- Russians from all background horrified by lawlessness
- Frenchman: 'Violence or the threat if it seemed everywhere that winter...'
- British Ambassador: 'Russian idea of liberty is to take things easy...'
- Food requisitioning
- Ukraine 'bread basket' lost
- Peasants had no incentive to sell produce as few products in shops for them to buy
- Money gained soon lost its value as inflation soared
- Lenin's solution: send requisition squads to countryside to look for grain which kulaks were hoarding
- Urged villages to set up committees of poor peasants to seize surplus foods from their 'better-off neighbours'
- Not very successful and made many more enemies for the Bolsheviks
- Urged villages to set up committees of poor peasants to seize surplus foods from their 'better-off neighbours'
- The collapse of the Russian empire
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