1. Why did the Bolsheviks win the Civil war?
Opposition to the Bolsheviks in USSR
Lenin’s reforms-Land peace
press politics
Constituent assembly dissolved
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
3 March /3 land, pop, iron coal, railways
3 bill roubles
Opposition to Bolsheviks other people
Czech legion Trans Siberian railway
Whites- anyone who wanted power
Greens-anyone from the land who wanted power
Foreigners- GB, Fr, Jap, USA
Why did the Bolsheviks win the Civil war?
Why did the whites lose?
Generals Wrangel, Denikin
Semenov- argued
Separated N S E W
Corrupt
Foreign Powers not united
Why the Reds won!
Trotsky -conscription, plans
Promoted able soldiers, discipline
Red army- 3 million, towns, peasants,
Some problems- equipped
Lenin- speeches, organised gvt, figure head
Central area- railways, resources, ppl field guns
Propaganda- land taken away- foreign powers
War communism- food taken and industry (kulaks killed)
Cheka- secret police killed Tsar too
Tsar and his family executed 17 July 1918 Ekaterinberg Cheka
Ordered by Lenin- shot, shallow graves in woodland acid