REASONS FOR CIVIL WAR WIN
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 07-04-17 16:05
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- Why the Communists won the Civil War
- White weaknesses
- Lacked a unified aim
- Spread over a large amount of land-geographically divided
- Failed to co-ordinate attacks
- Lacked support from many Russians
- Failed to work effectively with Greens
- Red military strengths
- Trotsky used officers who had fought with the Tar-experienced leader
- Army controlled important railway routes
- Successfully defeated each White army-stopped them working together
- War Communism
- Economic policies Communists introduced
- Communists controlled industrial centres
- Industry was nationalised and factories changed to make military supplies
- Policy of requisitioning food from peasants t feed Red Army
- Red leadership
- Unified leadership under Lenin
- Trotsky was also a very efficient leader
- Trotsky enforced strict discipline
- Lenin used Cheka to eliminate political opposition
- Unified leadership under Lenin
- Foreign intervention
- End of 1919-Britain and France had left Russia
- Foreign leaders realised the Whites would never win
- White weaknesses
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