Russian Civil War Lenin Bolshevik Anti-Imperialism

By justin arnold

Ma Student UNSW

The Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1921 was a war launched by the former officers of the Tsarist regime against the modernisation of Russia’s political economy by the Bolsheviks. The keys to the Red Army victory and White defeat in the Civil War were,
• The leadership of Lenin of the Bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks of the working class with a unity of purpose and command.
• The winning of support amongst the urban working class and peasantry of the population of Russia by the Bolsheviks,