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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian Civil War 1919-21
-Bolsheviks (Reds) vs Everyone else (Whites)
-Whites were:
Tsarist officers(wanted Tsar back)
Cossacks
Bourgeoisie
Outlawed political groups
International community(tons of countries including US) (Germany were asked to fight Reds as well.)
(Irony - Germnas helped Lenin back)
-Whites won early victories in 1918, but the tides turned due to Leon Trotsky
-Bolsheviks had railway and was centralized - advantage in this civil war
-Reds also controlled the industry and had majority of the population.
-Allied intervention was only half-hearted
-Lower classes were generally Red
-Middle and upper classes were White
-Peasants were neutral - lower than lower classes (like slaves)
-Whites were:
Tsarist officers(wanted Tsar back)
Cossacks
Bourgeoisie
Outlawed political groups
International community(tons of countries including US) (Germany were asked to fight Reds as well.)
(Irony - Germnas helped Lenin back)
-Whites won early victories in 1918, but the tides turned due to Leon Trotsky
-Bolsheviks had railway and was centralized - advantage in this civil war
-Reds also controlled the industry and had majority of the population.
-Allied intervention was only half-hearted
-Lower classes were generally Red
-Middle and upper classes were White
-Peasants were neutral - lower than lower classes (like slaves)
Summary
Reds(Bolsheviks) vs. Whites(everyone else). Reds had advantages thus won the civil war.
Lenin after the Civil War
-Lenin set up the comintern (communist international) to make other countries communist as well
-Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war materials for Germans
-received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
-Germans could have more soliders than 100 000 if they trained them in Russia
-1922, Bolshevik Party -> Communist Party
-Russia -> Soviet Union
-St.Petersburg -> Petrograd -> Leningrad -> St.Petersburg
-Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war materials for Germans
-received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
-Germans could have more soliders than 100 000 if they trained them in Russia
-1922, Bolshevik Party -> Communist Party
-Russia -> Soviet Union
-St.Petersburg -> Petrograd -> Leningrad -> St.Petersburg
Summary
Lenin wanted communism to spread out. He also had a treaty with Germany.