How far do you agree that Trotsky's leadership of the Red Army was the most important reason for Bolshevik successes in Russia after the period October/ November 1917-24?

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How far do you agree that Trotsky's leadership of the Red Army was the most important reason for Bolshevik successes in Russia after the period October/ November 1917-24?
- Trotsky's leadership
- Weaknesses of the Whites
- Changing economic policies
  - State Capitalism
    - Decree on land.
      - Confiscated land from land owners.
      - Redistributed to the peasants
      - Made food shortages worse
      - Workers couldn't afford machinery.
      - Met promise of land from April Theses.
    - Decree of workers control.
      - Gave workers control of factories.
      - Couldn't run factories effectively.
        Gave themselves more holiday and shorter working hours.
    - Fixed rising inflation
      - Army takes control of banks.
      - Scrapped currency.
        Barter system
    - October 1917
    - Needed to save Russia's failing economy.
    - Needed to pull out of WW1.
  - War communism
    - When civil war broke out.
    - Helped the army
    - Industry
      - Decree on Nationalisation.
        Large industries liable to nationalisation.
        
        No compensation
        
        Old managers brought back.
      - Private enterprise made illegal.
      - Strikes made illegal.
      - Shortage of workers due to war.
      - Consumer goods industries were unable to function.
        Geared to war effort.
    - Summer 1918
    - Agriculture
      - Grain requisitioning
        Believed Kulaks were hoarding grain.
        To force prices to rise.
        
        Squads seized grain.
        
        Resistance was met with brutality.
        
        Peasants stopped growing grain .
        Subsistence farming.
    - Inflation made money worthless.
    - Transport system collapsed.
    - Famine caused 5-10 million deaths. Needed aid from USA
    - Achieved its main aim.
  - New Economic Policy (NEP)
    - Kronstadt Rebellion caused Lenin to change his mind.
    - 1921
    - Small scale industries returned to original owners.
      - Industrial output recovered rapidly
    - Heavy industry and banks remained under state control
    - Grain requisitioning ended.
      - Replaced by small tax paid in grain
      - Agricultural out put soared.
    - Peasants could sell surplus.
    - Rouble was revalued bringing back some economic stability.
    - Private trade was permitted.
      - Increased product availability.
    - Split the Bolsheviks
      - Bukharin felt Russia's economy needed to grow rapidly.
      - Trotsky feared it was a return to capitalism.
- Lenin's leadership
- Context

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