HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Many people were opposed to the Bolshevik’s communist government.
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Southern Russian opposed the capitalist Northern Russian government.
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People were angry that Russia withdrew from WWI.
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Supporters of Lenin fought with supports of the Czar.
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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: -After the success of the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks ordered land redistribution to the peasants, Soldiers in the Russian army, mostly peasants, went home for the redistribution and deserted the army. This emboldened the non-Bolshevik socialists, liberals and supporters of autocracy to start a Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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.