HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Foreign troops remained on Russian soil.
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The Bolsheviks did not fulfill their promises.
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Many people opposed the Bolshevik government.
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Lenin acquired too much territory in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Russian Civil War ended in 1923 with Lenin’s Red Army claiming victory and establishing the Soviet Union. After many years of violence and political unrest, the Russian Revolution paved the way for the rise of communism as an influential political belief system around the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The first reason was that there was bound to be a challenge to the Bolsheviks, who had seized power by a surprise coup d’état. After 1918, their political opponents tried to reverse it. The Bolsheviks had many enemies. One group who wanted to destroy the Bolsheviks were the Social Revolutionaries.
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.