Why did the Reds win the Russian Civil War?
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- Created on: 26-02-14 11:51
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- Why did the Reds win the Russian Civil War?
- Strengths of the Reds
- Increase in Popularity
- Because of their reforms
- Trotsky
- Created the 'Red Army'
- Help from Provisional Officers
- Enforced strict disipline
- Used encouragement and terror
- Forcing soldiers to fight
- Outstanding military strategist
- Created the 'Red Army'
- Resources
- Control of main cities
- Moscow
- Petrograd
- Factories
- Moscow
- Factories
- Controlled Railways
- Send supplies and troops to the front
- Control of main cities
- War Communism
- Supplied the Red Army with food and weapons
- Unity
- Shared a single purpose
- Fighting for survival
- 'All or nothing' war
- Fighting for survival
- Shared a single purpose
- Murdered the Tsar and his family
- Destroy the old governemt
- Preventing people supporting them again
- Destroy the old governemt
- Propaganda
- Better understanding of its value than the Whites
- Invested more in propaganda
- Created nationalistic feelings
- Whites were tools of the western world
- 'Agitpop' trains
- Educate peasants
- Film crews, literature and theatre groups
- Spread Bolshevik ideas effectively
- Film crews, literature and theatre groups
- Educate peasants
- Better understanding of its value than the Whites
- War Communism
- Purpose
- To equip the Red Army
- To introduce communism
- Ensure that workers are fed in cities
- Nationalisation
- Factories with more than 10 workers were taken over by state
- Supreme Council of National Economy
- Controlled what was produced from factories
- Workers
- Worked under military disipline
- Strikes were illegal
- Strikers were shot
- Peasants
- Grain Requisitioning
- Give up all surplus grain to the government
- Keep what they needed to survive
- No longer allowed to sell for profit
- Give up all surplus grain to the government
- Grain Requisitioning
- Money
- Government printed masses of money
- Needed to meet expenses
- Led to inflation
- Money payments abolished
- Government printed masses of money
- Purpose
- Red Terror
- Forcing peasants to hand over grain
- Forcing workers to obey orders
- CHEKA
- Forcing peasants to hand over grain
- Red Terror
- Forcing workers to obey orders
- CHEKA
- CHEKA
- Intimidation against opponents
- Back up Lenin's policy
- MILITARY STATE TAKING PLACE
- Forcing workers to obey orders
- CHEKA
- Intimidation against opponents
- Back up Lenin's policy
- MILITARY STATE TAKING PLACE
- Increase in Popularity
- Weaknesses of the Whites
- Less Popular than the Reds
- They were associated with....
- The Tsar
- Landlords
- Foreign Intervention
- Harsh treatment of people in the lands they captured
- They were associated with....
- Disunity
- Made up of many different groups
- Common opposition
- The Bolsheviks
- Common opposition
- Lacked a single leader
- Made up of many different groups
- Propaganda
- Not as effective as the Reds
- Less Popular than the Reds
- Strengths of the Reds
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