reasons for red victory Flashcards
What are the 4 reasons the reds won
Military strength, unity and leadership, support, geographical location
Why was it easier for the reds to unite people to their cause
They fought for one aim of survival of revolution and bolshevism, easier for them to pass certain decrees
What was nationalised
Factories and businesses
What was established in the countryside
War communism, soldiers forcibly requisitioned grain crops and live stock
What was there a ban on
private trade
What did the reds have that the whites didn’t in terms of organisation
A unified command structure
Why did the whites have poor unity
Made of many different groups including tsarists mensheviks nationalists separists SR’s socialists
They also had no unified aim
What happened due to the whites having different groups
They fought amongst each other and didn’t trust one another
What kind of leadership did the whites have
no leadership or political direction
What did receiving support do to the whites leadership
undermined their own leadership
What places did the reds hold
Moscow and Petrograd
Why did the reds move the capital to Moscow
It was the hub of railway networks and allowed military planning and was an administrative centre
What was inside of Moscow for the reds
Main industry and armaments factories and weapons and supplies from the tsars army
Where were the whites stationed and based
Scattered around the edges of Moscow, seperated
Based in Omsk and Archangel
What did Moscow give the reds that the whites didnt have
The whites had limited industry and poor transport links
Explain recruitment for each side
Reds was easier as Moscow was heavily populated
Whites was harder as they were in places more thinly populated
Why did the peasants support the reds
Peasants feared the loss of their newly acquired land and reds assured it would remain theirs
Why did the workers and soldiers support the reds
They wanted to protect the gains from 1917
How did the reds lose support from the peasants, workers and soldiers
Introduction of war communism
What did whites do with the land they seized from the peasants
Gave it back to the landlord to receive their support
What was a controversial belief of the whites that lost a lot of support
They were deeply anti-semitic
50,000 Jews murdered by white armies
What was the whites slogan and who feared it
Russia one and indivisible
Ethnic minorities
What did the white policies do for their support
Made people naturally support the reds, even if they did not fully support everything
What did the red army increase from and to
1.5 million in 1917 to 3.5 million in 1920
