The Russian Civil War

• The Red Army

  • Leadership
  • Trotsky, and Lenin
  • Aims
  • Build socialist society
  • Geographical Factors
  • Held central area of Western Russia
  • Controlled railways
• The White Army

  • Leadership
  • No single leader for unity
  • Aims
  • Different aims due to different interests
  • Common aim to defeat Bolsheviks
  • Geographical Factors
  • Scattered around outer perimeter of Communist controlled Moscow
  • Communication difficulties
• The White Army

  • Consisted of:
  • Aristocrats,
  • Royalists,
  • Churchmen,
  • Officers
  • Had support of foreign countries:
  • UK,
  • France,
  • Japan,
  • USA
• Factors that helped Lenin impose Communist control in Russia

  1. Abandonment of Constituent Assembly
  2. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  3. CHEKA
  4. War Communism
  5. Execution of Tsar Nicholas II
  6. Kronstadt Revolt 1921
  7. New Economic Policy
  8. Civil War