Civil War
- The war was fought between the "reds' (Bolsheviks) and the "whites" (opposition groups).
- The whites were a conflation of many different groups:
- Czarist officers,
- Cossacks,
- Bourgeoisie,
- outlawed political groups,
- international community (soldiers representing countries such as: Canada, USA, German).
- The atmosphere of the early Civil War was in favour of the Whites, but Leon Trotsky saw to a turning of the tables against the Whites. This could be seen a victory of Red organization.
- The Reds and Whites represented a class battle: Lower (Reds) and Upper (Whites).
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“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
-Leon Trotsky “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” -Joseph Stalin Subjunctive question: How might the civil war have ended differently if it had been brought to the scale of the first World War? In a way, being seen as a premature Cold War, how would a war of this scale effected countries' perception of the principles of Communism?
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