Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why was there a Russian Civil War?
- Allies- France and UK
- Unhappy, wanted second
front to ease pressure on
them- this argument ends
November 1918
- Fear of communism spreading, troops were sent in 1919
- Bolsheviks cancelled vast debts to Allies
- Allies fought civil war to get money back
- Requisitioning
- Soldiers and Cheka sent into country to forcibly collect grain
- From hoarding Kulaks
- Some peasants like Communists, some hate them, some hate them but love Lenin
- Depends who is classed as kulak
- "These blood-suckers have grown rich on the hunger of the people" Lenin
- Petrograd, 50g of bread a day
- Ukraine, breadbasket, independence.
- Political opposition
- SR's, Mensheviks and Kadets
- Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly means
there was no other platform for opinion/criticism
- Divisions
- Left communists believed that war
should have been fought to push
Germany out of Russia, thus
consolidating the revolution
- Nationalists unhappy at collapse of empire
- November 1917 Decree on Nationalities
- Territories free to leave
- Ukraine January 1918
- Finland December 1917