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    The Russian Civil War On October, 1917, the Bolshevik party overthrew the Russian government and arrested him. They take control over Russia. From there, things start to not go really well because of the Bolsheviks policies. A chaos starts to begin a lot of people weren’t happy. The economy was bad, there was a great inflation. Also, they were having a lot of enemies. All these people who hated them start to come together and they formed a group which called the Whites. From there, the civil war

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    The Russian Civil War was fought because of "old news" from the first world war that was reignited when there were military involved problems that were used to represent Russia. The war was fought between the Russians and the Bolsheviks; the Russians are the Reds and Bolsheviks are the Whites. Groups that fought in the war were monarchists, militarists, and foreign nations. In the end of the 2-year war, the Bolsheviks defeated the Russians. The Russian Civil War was not represented by any event in

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    inevitable social unrest. The Russian civil war was accompanied by a famine that swept the nation up until the end of the war. A number of ecological difficulties such as drought contributed to the famine, but it was grain requisitioning imposed by the Bolshevik regime and the government’s decision to hide the true severity of the famine that made the it truly detrimental to Russia. Struggling to deal with the civil war and the famine unfolding in Russia, the Bolsheviks imposed a grain requisitioning

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    and civil war (Modern World History: Russia 1905-41). From these occurrences, Russia then became the first communist state in the world. The Bolsheviks had become the ruling party after taking over the Provisional Government in the revolution of November 1917. Vladimir Lenin had been the leader of this party. There was a bitter civil war between the Communists who were the Reds and the opposition being the Whites. As a final point the Bolsheviks defeated their enemies in the Russian Civil War that

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    The Russian Civil War started November 1917 October 1922 was a multiple party war in the old Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Many groups competed to determine Russia's political future. The two largest fighting groups were the Red Army , fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism and alternative forms of socialism, each with

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    In October , Nineteen-Seventeen the Russian Civil War began. The Russian Civil War is known as an after effect of the Russian Revolutions. The Russian Civil War began when two main political groups in Russia both wanted to independently run the country under completely different types of government. The two groups are known as the Bolsheviks who are allied with the Red Army and the White Army who had many allies in foreign countries such as Germany. The Bolshevik party led the revolution under the

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    characteristics and the everyday society in Russia. I will also be covering the geography of Russia and their lines of communication. Russia has multiple conflicts that the country has been a part of, but I will be discussing the Russian Civil War also known as the three-year war. Furthermore, I will be discussing how weather affects Russia’s population, agriculture, and insurgency. Finally, I will be covering Russia’s society, language, power and authority, etc. Russia’s geography is

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    During the 1918 Russian Civil War, there was news depicting Leon Trotsky as the leader of the Red Army. The news was accompanied by pictures of a dragon with a top hat that were used to describe the head as the fighter in Saint George advocating for communism. It was regarded as the main weapon to combat capitalism. The title of the news associated with the leader was the theme of counter-revolution printed on the picture. The Russian diverse interests in capitalism, socialism and monarchism required

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    The Russian Civil War began in October of 1918. An uprising in Petrograd lit the match and things were on a roll. The Bolsheviks gained power and were bound to be challenged for it. A major country that opposed the Bolsheviks were the Social Revolutionaries. When the Revolutionaries were held back by Bolshevik guards, they fired back at them by attacking their Bolshevik government. The countries that opposed the Bolsheviks were the Revolutionaries as mentioned before, the Mensheviks ( who once controlled

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    Why did the Bolsheviks win the Russian Civil War? The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921. During this time the Bolsheviks faced massive opposition to their rule in the form of the White Armies, led by the former officers of the Tsarist state, and also from intervention by the forces of foreign countries. The Bolsheviks were surrounded, and often outnumbered by their opponents. At times, their situation seemed hopeless. Yet, by the start of 1921, the Bolsheviks had defeated

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