HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Duma
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Bolsheviks
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Reds
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Whites
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bolshevik victory: Collapse of the Russian Republic and Russian State. Execution of the Russian Imperial family. Defeat of the White movement and its exodus. Creation of the Soviet Union in most of the former Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -In October of 1917, Lenin took full control of the government in what is called the Bolshevik Revolution. Russia was now the first communist country in the world. After the revolution, Russia exited World War I by signing a peace treaty with Germany called the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Detailed explanation-3: -In short, the Bolsheviks were able to win the Russian Civil War because the Whites failed to secure the support of the different national groups, key foreign powers, and the peasantry, while Bolsheviks enjoyed much more authority within Russia and were therefore able to assert their power over the Whites.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Russian Civil War, which broke out in 1918 shortly after the October Revolution, was fought mainly between the “Reds, ‘’ led by the Bolsheviks, and the “Whites, ‘’ a politically-diverse coalition of anti-Bolsheviks.