WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What nation had Bolshevik soldiers dressed in red?
A
Russia
B
Poland
C
Greece
D
Germany
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Red Army was the military force of the Bolshevik regime and the Soviet republic. It was formed in 1918 to defend the new regime during the Russian Civil War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Red Guards (Russian: ) were paramilitary volunteer formations consisting mainly of factory workers, peasants, cossacks and partially of soldiers and sailors for “protection of the soviet power".

Detailed explanation-3: -On April 22 the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour. This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People’s Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two largest combatants were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favouring political monarchism, capitalism and social democracy, each with democratic and anti-democratic variants.

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