Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7THE CIVIL WARTHE CIVIL WARINCREASING PROBLEMS Economic situation worsens General chaos & lawlessness War Communism failing• forced grain requisitioning• anti-Kulak campaignTHE CIVIL WARANTI-BOLSHEVIKSWHITES Very diverse: only united in anti-Bolshevism Control periphery & borderlands“Peace & Freedom in the Soviets”“What Bolshevism brings to the people”THE CIVIL WARANTI-BOLSHEVIKS GREENS Peasants who opposed both Reds & Whites • atrocities committed on both sides Local rather than national oppositionTHE CIVIL WARANTI-BOLSHEVIKS FOREIGN INTERVENTION British, French, American, Japanese, etc. sent troops Ineffective, withdrew in 1920American troops in Vladivostok“Capitalists of all countries, unite!”THE CIVIL WARANTI-BOLSHEVIKS NON-RUSSIAN NATIONALITIES Baltic states achieve independence Polish-Soviet War, 1920, gives territory to Poles Ukraine, Trans-Caucasus succumb to Soviet controlTHE CIVIL WAR RED VICTORY Defeat opposition by 1921 But war ravaged countryVictims of 1921 Famine Created siege mentality“Soviet Russia is an armed
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