Russia Civil War Bolshevik Marxism Lenin Soviet Union

By Justin Arnold

MA Student UNSW

The Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1921 can be seen as the conflict that has defined all other conflicts of twentieth century. It was a war launched by the former officers of the Tsarist regime against the modernisation of Russia’s Political Economy byt he Bolsheviks. The keys to the Red Army victory and White defeat in the Civil War were ,
• The political leadership of Lenin of the Bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks of the working class with a unity of purpose and command or what Lenin calls ‘unity, identity, struggle and the transformation of opposites’ ,