Civil War

Question 1

players

Answer 1

whites
greens
reds
foreign intervention

Question 2

reasons for red army victory

Answer 2

geography 
unity and organisation 
leadership 
support 
foreign involvement

Question 3

geography

Answer 3

Reds commanded the hub of communications, armaments factories and cities

Whites widely dispersed in countryside

Question 4

unity and organisation

Answer 4

Reds untied in aim to survive, ideologically committed and unified command structure

White generals operated independently and fought different objectives

Question 5

leadership

Answer 5

Red army became well-disciplined fighting force

Whites had few competent commanders and ill-disciplined and corruption

Question 6

support

Answer 6

Greens support varied, generally red land policies were more popular than the whites association with traditional tsarist policies

National minorities were suspicious of the whites slogan ‘Russia one and indivisible’

Question 7

foreign involvement

Answer 7

hostility to foreign investment gave reds a propaganda platform
didn’t aid the whites as help was insufficient and withdrawn after peace in the west
November 1920 - british and French ships evacuated whites from Crimea

Question 8

1st stage

Answer 8

1918 - 1920

Question 9

1st stage whites unsuccessful strategy 1918

Answer 9

Denikin attacked the don region threatening Tsaritsyn

Kolchak’s army captured

Question 10

1st stage whites unsuccessful strategy 1919

Answer 10

denikin began offensive close to Moscow

yudenich’s small army in the north got close to Petrograd

Question 11

1st stage whites unsuccessful strategy 1920

Answer 11

kolchak in retreat, captured and shot

wrangel replaced Denikin in Crimea

Question 12

second stage

Answer 12

1920 - 1921

Russia and Poland conflict

Question 13

cause of Treaty of Riga

Answer 13

poles invaded western Ukraine
poles wanted independence from Russia
Poland = bridge between Russia and West

Question 14

Treaty of Riga

Answer 14

March 1921
granting Poland self-rule
independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Question 15

murder of Tsar

Answer 15

whites wanted tsarist regime not N2
tsar and family prisoners - bolsheviks thought ex-tsar = white resistance
Cheka shot whole family
violence didn’t beg well for bolsheviks image

Question 16

Gov control wartime

Answer 16

increase centralisation of power 
1/2M party members fought for Red army 
soviet bureaucracy grew 
new central control brought in to mange economy - NEP 1921 
Red Terror 
USSR formed