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- 5 main causes of the Russian Civil war
- the Bolsheviks had many enemies:
- * Social revolutionaries (angry because Lenin had closed the assembly)
- * Supporters of the provisional govrnment
- * Supporters of the Tsar
- * Army officers (angry Lenin made peace with Germany)
- * Nobles whose land had been given to the peasants
- * All cooperated to bring down Bolshevik government
- Allied opposition:
- * Britain, America and France angry Russia had dropped out of WW1, attacked Bolsheviks - afraid because Bolsheviks wanted to cause communist revolution all over the world
- Breakdown of law and order:
- * The foreign powers led by the generals: Wrangel,Yudenich and Denikin. They were angry because Lenin had left the war and they wanted Russia's debts to be repaid. They were also scared of communism.
- * Czech legion - czech priosners of war who mutinied, took control of Siberian railway and attacked towards Moscow
- * The Bolsheviks instituted a Red Terror that killed anyone who opposed them - strikers were shot, and Trotsky even arrested the families of Red generals to keep them loyal.
- Collapse of Russian Empire:
- Lenin dismissed constituent assembly and ruled by decree
- Political opposition:
- * Mensheviks wanted another revolution but a slower one.
- The Tsarists wanted the Tsar back in power
- Whites where made up of many different powers including:
- * The Czech legion who wanted independance which they wouldn't achieve under Bolshevik power
- * The liberals and social revolutionaries wanted democracy not communism.
- Food requisitioning:
- How did it help cause the Civil War in Russia?
- Government had established itself securely in many cities, summer of 1918 onwards Communist government became more and more concerned about its survival as opposition gathered in other areas.
- Russia begam to split apart before the collapse of the Provisional Govern,t. Lenin had decreed n November 1917 that territories were free to leave Russia. Many territories declared themselves independent of the RSFSR.
- Can you make links to other factors?
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