HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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the Bolsheviks
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the Czarists
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the nobility
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the clergy
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a result, Russia erupted into a bloody civil war, which pitted the “Reds” (Bolsheviks), against the enemies of the Bolshevik regime collectively called the White Army. The White Army consisted of: independence movements, monarchists, liberals, and anti-Bolshevik socialist parties.
Detailed explanation-2: -Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Bolshevik Revolution On October 24–25, 1917, Bolshevik (left-wing socialist) forces under Vladimir Lenin seized key government buildings and stormed the Winter Palace, then the seat of the new government in Russia’s capital, Petrograd (now St. Petersburg).
Detailed explanation-4: -The guiding spirit of the revolution was Lenin, who came from the intelligentsia and had spent his life not in manual work but in writing and speaking.