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THE CIVIL WAR

THE CIVIL WAR. THE CIVIL WAR. INCREASING PROBLEMS. Economic situation worsens. War Communism failing. forced grain requisitioning. anti- Kulak campaign. General chaos & lawlessness. THE CIVIL WAR. ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS. WHITES. Very diverse: only united in anti-Bolshevism .

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THE CIVIL WAR

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  1. THE CIVIL WAR

  2. THE CIVIL WAR INCREASING PROBLEMS • Economic situation worsens • War Communism failing • forced grain requisitioning • anti-Kulak campaign • General chaos & lawlessness

  3. THE CIVIL WAR ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS • WHITES • Very diverse: only united in anti-Bolshevism • Control periphery & borderlands “What Bolshevism brings to the people” “Peace & Freedom in the Soviets”

  4. THE CIVIL WAR ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS • GREENS • Peasants who opposed both Reds & Whites • atrocities committed on both sides • Local rather than national opposition

  5. THE CIVIL WAR ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS • FOREIGN INTERVENTION • British, French, American, Japanese, etc. sent troops • Ineffective, withdrew in 1920 “Capitalists of all countries, unite!” American troops in Vladivostok

  6. THE CIVIL WAR ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS • NON-RUSSIAN NATIONALITIES • Baltic states achieve independence • Polish-Soviet War, 1920, gives territory to Poles • Ukraine, Trans-Caucasus succumb to Soviet control

  7. THE CIVIL WAR • RED VICTORY • Defeat opposition by 1921 • But war ravaged country • Created siege mentality “Soviet Russia is an armed camp” Victims of 1921 Famine

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