Why Bolsheviks Won The Civil War

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There were three substantial reasons to why Bolsheviks won the civil war. The first was weakness and disunited nature of whites, secondly the introduction of Cheka and finally, the most important was the party’s leadership. Party’s leadership which lead Bolsheviks to the victory and the other reasons were of help but not as much as the leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. The whites were the main opposition of the Bolsheviks (red army). The white party faced many problems which caused them to be military and politically weak. firstly, they were a coalition of different enemies of Bolsheviks which included social revolutionaries, Mensheviks, tsarist, army officers angry at Brest litovsk, and nobles whose land had been given to peasants.

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