Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russian civil war 1918-21
- Why?
- CA closed down after one
day - end of the idea of
democracy. The Russians
wanted democracy and
were prepared to fight
against the Bolsheviks to
achieve this.
- Sovnarkom was a
Bolshevik-led government in
October, but the Mensheviks
and SRs in it were ignored and
formed opposition against the
Bolsheviks which was required
for a war to start
- Many felt that the Bolsheviks had not
helped them quickly enough. There
was still food shortages especially
after BL and the loss of Ukraine
- Who fought whom?
- REDS
- Bolsheviks (became Communists)
- Fighting for survival
- WHITES
- Opposition to the Bolsheviks, (general
Denikin, Yudenich and Kolchak
- They did not like the Bolsheviks
or their Communist ideas
- GREENS
- National minorites
(such as Georgia)
- They were seeking
independence from
the Bolsheviks
- FOREIGN POWERS
- Russia's ex-allies
(Britain, France,
USA, Japan)
- Lenin had withdrawn from the war and signed treaty of BL
- Bolsheviks cancelled payment of all loans given to Russia by the allies
- Britain, France and USA feared spread of Communism to their own countries
- What?
- Spring 1918
- Civil war began
- 1919 defeats for reds
- General Yudenich,
with British support
attacked from NW and
threatened Petrograd
- General Denikin
supported mainly
by French
threatened the
South, especially
Ukraine
- With British
support, Admiral
Kolchak attacked
from the East
- 1919
- Due to leadership and organisation of
Trotsky, and the weaknesses and divisions
of the Whites, the tide began to turn
(Yudenich and Denikin were both defeated)
- 1920
- Kolchak himself was shot
- Effects on the people
- War Communism
- Resistance e.g Krondstadt Mutiny
- Red Terror