Civil War

Cards (15)

  • who was it between
    bolsheviks / reds and their political enemies / whites
  • who were the greens
    nationalist interests
  • why were the whites not very effective
    as they didn't have a proper leader or goal meaning they were separated by ideas and too reliant on foreign powers
  • the reds had a strong and effective single leader and a single ideology
  • in 1918 Czechoslovakia was cut off from easter Europe showing the lack bolshevik power
  • in 1919 Germany and Austria were pulling out of the territories lost by the treaty of Brest-litovsk as they were loosing the war
  • which foreign powers supported the whites 

    britain, America, France, Italy, Japan and Switzerland
  • how many people died
    10 million mainly form famine and diseases
  • industry had fallen in total to 10%-20% of pre-war levels
  • population of cities had decreased to around 50% of their 1917 levels
  • by 1921 the bolsheviks had consolidated their power providing a base for a centralised, autocratic, one-party state
  • the post-war communist government consisted of men who served in the red army and the Cheka
  • war communism was introduced and the effects of this and the actions of the Cheka caused divisions within the party and a move away from the use of terror to control the population
  • the new economic policy was introduced to bring stability to the government even though it was contradicting all that the communists stood for
  • the war led to power being even more centralised than before