HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Reds:the Bolsheviks, now called Communists, who supported staying out of the war and bringing equality for all people.
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Whites:those who wanted to stay in World War I
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Czarists:those who supported bringing Czar Nicholas II back.
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None of the above
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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: -The Red Army won the war because it was better-organized, more than united and held the best territory. After the war, the communists established the Soviet Union in 1922. Tsar Nicholas II, the traditional autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, had just lost his throne in the February Revolution of 1917.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Armyand the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1903, this party was divided into two groups-Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.