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What groups made up the Reds?

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Workers and Bolshevik peasants including Red Guard and Kronstadt Sailors

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What groups made up the Whites?

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Everyone anti-Bolshevik including liberals, former Tsarists, nationalists, separatists and SRs

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What groups made up the Greens?

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Peasant armies and deserters

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Who were the Czech Legion?

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A group of Czech nationalists formed in WW1 who fought against the Bolsheviks in the civil war

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What was the Siberian Anabasis?

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The fighting between the Czech legion and Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway and resulted in successful resistance and evacuation of the legion

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What did Britain supply the Whites with?

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£100 million worth of supplies however they did not send troops in order to maintain support for Labour and recency of WW1

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What did France supply the Whites with?

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Millions of Francs in Russian industries and a small number of troops

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How did Japan intervene in the war?

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They seized land in Russia so the US had to send in troops

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When did the Polish capture Kiev?

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May 1920

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How did the attacks from the Polish effect the war?

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It weakened the Whites through the Treaty of Riga

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Who was Commissar for War in Russia?

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Trotsky

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What did Trotsky achieve for Russia?

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Reorganised the strict hierarchy and brought back tsarist officers, soldiers committees were banned, established harsh discipline

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Why was hierarchy in the army controversial?

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It went against Communism

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Why was White leadership unsuccessful?

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They were weak and cruel, soldiers were ill-disciplined, officers lived in brothels doing drunks and drinking

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When was conscription introduced?

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May 1918

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What was the size of the Red army in 1919 and 1920?

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3 million in 1919, 5 million in 1920

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How many deserted in 1918 and 1920?

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1 million in 1918, 4 million in 1920

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Why did White support from peasants fall?

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Kolchak handed out land to those who were not previously landowners driving away peasants

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How did Bolsheviks have advantageous geography?

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They held the industrial heartland around Moscow and Petrograd as well as having their base in the railway heartland

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How did the Whites have disadvantageous geography?

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They held areas scattered around the centre making communication and coordination difficult

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How were the Reds better unified?

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Trotsky organised the army and there was a single, clear structure

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Who was Admiral Kolchak?

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White General who led white forces who used to command Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

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How large was Kolchak’s army?

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150,000 men

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When was Kolchak’s army crushed?

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1919

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When was Kolchak captured and executed?
1920
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Who was General Denikin?
Took control of Russia's southern troops
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How large was Denikin's army?
150,000 men but 40,000 were Don Cossacks so were only focused on protecting the Don region not Russia as a whole
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When was Denikin's army defeated?
November 1920
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How was Denikin's army defeated?
The Red Army defeated them in a counter attack so Allied warships had to facilitate he evacuation of 150,000 men
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Who was General Yudenich?
He led the smallest of the White Forces
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How large was Yudenich's army?
15,000 men
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How was Yudenich's army defeated?
After coming in sight of Petrograd they were crushed by a much larger Bolshevik force
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When was Yudenich's army defeated?
October 1919
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What was controversial about Bolshevik economic policy in the first few years after coming to power?
It was pragmatic over ideological
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What were the attempted economic reforms the Bolsheviks made?
Banned private trade Control labour Nationalise all large scale industry Replace the money system with a system of rationing
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What was the rationing system built upon?
The grain monopoly
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When was the grain monopoly introduced?
9th May 1918
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What was the main consequence of the grain monopoly?
Northern industrial cities lost half their population between 1918 and 1920
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How did the grain monopoly work?
The Bolshevik forces seized harvest surplus by beating and torturing peasants until the required amount was handed over
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What is a kulak?
The term created by Bolsheviks to describe the capitalist peasants hiding their grain
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When was the grain monopoly expanded to a general food levy?
January 1919
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What was the problem with the functionality of the grain monopoly?
It took seeds that peasants would need to plant for next years harvest
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Who did the rationing system favour?
The working class who received a lot more coupons than previous members of the upper classes
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When was the Decree on Food Procurement?
May 1918
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What did the Decree on Food Procurement?
Made kulaks enemies of the state and put grain requestioning into standard law
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What was the consequence of banning private trade?
A huge black market developed
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How much of the urban diet came through state rations in 1918 to 1921?
Less than 1/3
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Who were bag-men?
People travelling between villages selling food for belongings or stolen goods
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Why was the railway system clogged in the civil war?
The Cheka were sending trains to arrest bag men
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What percentage of the population did Petrograd lose to War communism?
70%
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What percentage of the population did Moscow lose to War communism?
50%
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What percentage of prostitutes in Moscow were former Bourgeoisie?
42%
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How many members of the intelligentsia fled Russia?
2-3 million
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How many Bolshevik families lived at the Kremlin and best hotels?
5000
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What percentage of trains needed repairs by 1921?
70%
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What was the coal production in 1913 and 1920?
31 million in 1913 to 9 million in 1920
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What was grain production between 1913 and 1920?
80 million in 1913 to 46 million in 1920
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How many died in the famine of 1921 to 1922?
5 million
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How big was the Tambov Uprising?
40,000
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Who led the Tambov uprising?
Alexander Antonov who had been imprisoned for terrorism prior to it
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When was Tambov uprising?
1920-1922
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How did the Bolsheviks combat the Tambov uprising?
Poison gas and opening fire on the masses
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When was the Kronstadt Mutiny?
March 1921
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How large was the Kronstadt mutiny?
10,000 men
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What was Soviet electrical policy?
Wanted to put in a lightbulb in every home and a network of power stations
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When was the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement?
1921
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What ideological problems came with the NEP?
It brought back some elements of capitalism
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What type of divisions did the NEP cause?
Class warfare
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When were party factions banned?
1921 at the 10th Party Congress
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What did the party membership of the Bolsheviks change to between 1921 to 1923?
730,000 in 1921 to 500,000 in 1923
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How did workers initially react to the NEP?
They disliked the one man management system and the smaller influence of trade unions
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Did the NEP lead to agricultural results with examples?
No, agricultural production became stagnant throughout 1921 and led to the Great Famine
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What was Russian grain production in 1913, 1921 and 1925?
80 million in 1913, 50 million in 1921 and 72.5 million in 1925
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What happened for wages of industrial workers between 1921 to 1924?
They doubled
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What was the main aim of NEP and was it achieved?
To restore food in cities and it was achieved
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What did the NEP do for Lenin?
It gave him complete control over the party and thus over the country
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What was the Scissor Crisis?
When the value of agricultural goods fell and the value of the manufactured goods rose significantly as predicted by Trotsky
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What percentage of prices where agricultural products compared to 1913 in 1923?
89%
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What percentage of prices where industrial products compared to 1913 in 1923?
290%
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What was the consequence of the Scissor Crisis?
Peasants kept grain and waited for a good time to sell
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What industries did Lenin maintain control over?
The commanding heights

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