Civil War Flashcards
Who were the Whites
Tsarists, Liberals, SRs
Who were the Greens
Peasants
Who were the White leaders
Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenich
What was the ending event of the Civil war
Wrangel (last surviving White general) defeated in Crimea
How did Geography help the Reds win
Held the central areas (Moscow/Petrograd)
Held the industrial centres
Whites were spread out and separated by large distances
How did leadership & unity help the Reds win
Reds united, Whites were not
Lenin and Trotsky has strong leadership/charisma
Corruption within the Whites
White officers were drunks and addicts, some lived in brothels
Why didn’t the Whites have much peasant/worker support
If they won they planned to return land to the bourgeois
How many men were in Yudenich’s army
15,000
How many men were in Denikin’s army
150,000
What happened at Tsaritsyn
Stalin held off against Denikin’s army, it would become a legendary story to the Red army
How close to Moscow did the Whites get in 1919
within 320KM
Who was the Green leader who ran a campaign of guerrilla warfare in Ukraine
Makhno
Who was nicknamed the “Red Napoleon”
Tukhachevsky, Moderniser of red army
