Civil War 1918-21 Flashcards
Who was general denikin?
Leader of whites in the south
Who was admiral kolchak
Leader of whites in Siberia
Who was general yudenich?
Leader of whites in Estonia?
Who were the greens?
National minorities fighting for their independence
Who did Lenin want a conflict?
To destroy his opponents in a short war rather than be challenged by them throughout Bolshevik rule
What actions of the bolsheviks caused resentment in Russia
Closing of the constituent assembly and signing the treaty of Brest litovsk
In the first stage of the war (1918-20) which area did bolsheviks hold?
Moscow and Petrograd
How many men did the red army have by 1920?
Over 5 million men
Where did Trotsky direct the war from?
A agitprop train which covered 65000 miles during the war
How many tsarist officers did Trotsky recruit?
50000 for their experience and to train recruits
How did Trotsky make the red army a professional force?
He reintroduced traditional ranks and practices and introduced conscription in some areas
Why was the white army’s reliance on foreign assistance a weakness?
Supplies from abroad rarely arrived in sufficient quantities, in the right places or at the right time and it also allowed to whites to be portrayed as foreign invaders
why were there divisions between the white army
some wanted a return to tsarism, military dictatorship or constituent assembly
how did western allies react to the treaty of brest litovsk
they were angered
