HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Opposition against the Bolsheviks developed after WWI peace settlement with Germany
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The destruction of all existing political and social structures
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The country was in turmoil
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -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.