Civil War Flashcards
Why were other nations frustrated with Russia post-WW1?
The Bolsheviks were neither paying the Tsar’s debts nor honouring their side in WW1.
Leader of the Comintern during Civil War
Zinoviev
Nations who intervened as a result of the establishment of the Comintern
Britain, France, America
Launching points for foreign interventions in the Civil War
Archangel, Ukraine, Vladivostok
How many soldiers made up the Czech Legion?
40,000
Czech legion sought to gain independence from …. and so they….
Austria-Hungary, fought in WW1
Why did the Czech Legion become isolated post-OctoberRev?
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Four groups of enemies who posed domestic challenges to the Bolsheviks
Tsarists and landowners, Patriotic Russians, ProvGov & Menshev supporters, SR’s
Tsarist supporters and landowners wanted….
The reversal of peasant land seizures, return of the Tsar Nicholas II.
Patriotic Russians were…
Kadets and Conservative (Right) forces
Why did Brest-Litovsk anger Right forces and split the Bolshevik party?
Much of Russia’s best agricultural land was lost to Germany (Ukraine, estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
The SR’s claimed that they were the legitimate government because…
They had won a majority in the dissolved Constituent Assembly
What did Lenin favour instead of the Constituent Assembly?
Political terror and soviet rule.
Kerenskyists advocated…
The return of the Constituent Assembly.
Aim of the Reds in the Civil War
To remain in power