WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil War was a result of the emergence of opposition against the Bolsheviks after November 1917. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Red Army fought for the Lenin’s Bolshevik government. The White Army represented a large group of loosely allied forces, including monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism. On July 16, 1918, the Romanovs were executed by the Bolsheviks.

Detailed explanation-3: -What were the main causes of the Civil War between the Red Army of the Bolsheviks, the White Army of the pro-Tsarist factions, and other groups like the Green Army?

Detailed explanation-4: -While the Bolsheviks had Lenin as their leader, no one person was in charge of the White forces. The Whites had several leaders-Yudenich, Kolchak, Deniken and Wrangel. All wanted glory for themselves. While trying to defeat the Reds, they were also often in competition with each other.

Detailed explanation-5: -White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik communist Russian political climate.