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Mind Map by Declan Wiseman, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Declan Wiseman
over 8 years ago
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White and Green weaknesses
- Geographical factors
- Too widely scattered geographically to mount sustained attack on Reds
- No telephone links
- Communications and co-ordination difficult
- Too widely scattered geographically to mount sustained attack on Reds
- Unity and organisation
- White Armies fight as
separate detachments;
they were not bound
together by a single aim
- Unwilling to sacrifice
individual interests to form
united anti-Bolshevik front
- Green’s limited aims of
national independence
meant they never formed
a common front
- White Armies fight as
separate detachments;
they were not bound
together by a single aim
- Leadership
- Whites lacked leaders of quality of Trotsky (War Commissar)
- Second rate
- Indiscipline and corruption
- Some officers lived in brothers with cocaine and vodka
- Whites lacked leaders of quality of Trotsky (War Commissar)
- Political factors
- Lacked appealing political programme
- Land would be restored to previous owners- peasants outraged
- Refusal to accept national independence movements
- Lacked appealing political programme
- Foreign intervention
- Whites too reliant on
supplies from abroad,
never arriving in the right
time, place or quantity
- Gave the Whites
weapons but
half-hearted and
ineffective
- Whites too reliant on
supplies from abroad,
never arriving in the right
time, place or quantity
- Propaganda
- Did not implement propaganda effectively
- Did not implement propaganda effectively
- pg 163 OF
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