HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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the peasants
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the White forces
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the czar
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the Red Army
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Causes of the civil war were: (i) When Bolsheviks ordered land re distributiion, the Russian army began to break up. (ii) Soldiers, mostly peasants, wished to go home for the redistribution and deserted. (iii) Non Bolshevik socialists, liberals and supporters of autocracy condemned the Bolshevik uprising.
Detailed explanation-3: -Russian Civil War, (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies.
Detailed explanation-4: -A The redistribution of land by the Bolsheviks. B The ideological clash between the Bolshevik and non-Bolshevik principles of socialism. D The fear of the spread of communism, harboured by western European countries. The redistribution of land by the Bolsheviks created massive turmoil across Russia.