Unit 2 1918 To 1921 Flashcards
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When did the Civil War break out
Summer 1918
Who was involved in the Civil war
Bolsheviks and mensheviks
Who were the reds and who were the whites
The reds were the bolsheviks and the whites were the mensheviks
What did the monarchists want
A return of the tsar
What did the kerenskyists want
A return of the constituent assembly
What did the landowners want
Their land back from the peasants
What did the reds have geographically which gave them an advantage
Industrial cities like petrograd and Moscow
Why did the reds have easy transportation
They controlled the railway networks
Was Trotsky a good leader to the red army
Yes and he earned respect off his troops because of it
What did Trotsky do to ensure the loyalty of his men
Held their families captive
Why did lenin introduce war communism
To keep the red army controlled with food and weapons
Why were the whites communication not good
The armies were spread over a large area
Did the white army have similar aims and were they united
No
What did the white army suffer from as a consequence of all their poor organization
Low morale and mass desertions
What did strikes result in during war communism
The death penalty
What resulted from the peasants not wanting to sell their food because of poor price
Lenin took their food and anyone hiding any was punished
What was the red terror
Where hundreds of bolshevik opposers were killed by the cheka
What did the reds do to undermine the whites
Shot the tsar and his family
How many did the cheka kill
250 000
What was the politburo and who was in it
A small comitee that could make decisions fast
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
What did the orgburo do
Carried out the decisions made by the politburo
What did war communism do to finance
Destroyed the economy because of mass inflation
What happened to industrial production under lenin
Declined sharply
What does famine mean
An extreme scarcity of food
