Question by faithgodsmilelove: The civil war in Russia was between which two sides?
The civil war in Russia was between which two sides? Communists and Capitalists, Lenin supporters and Stalin supporters, The Bolsheviks and the Reds, or The Reds and the Whites?
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Answer by Cap’n Pugwash
From your list Reds & Whites
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Noles says
Reds/Bolsheviks/Communists- Led by Lenin and Trotsky
Whites/Monarchists/Loyalists- Led by supporters of Czar Nicholas II
Excelsior The Wonder says
The Bolsheviks, the Revolutionairies were known as the reds. They marched under a red banner. Red is the colour of revolution.
Three revolutionary parties were trying to gain ascendancy immediately after the revolution. The Kadets, the mensheviks (or the smaller party, from the Russian word for smaller, 'menshe') and the Bolsheviks (from 'bolshe' or 'bigger')
The Bolsheviks won the struggle to lead the revolution. They then fought the Imperialists / monarchists / Whites /capitalists (who had been in power up until that point, led by the emperor Tsar Nicholas II) for control of Russia.
Of course, the reds won, led by Lenin and Trotsky, amongst many others, and almost a century of communist rule followed.
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PS forget Stalin – he's not important until a few years later
BRENT P says
I agree – from the list, reds and whites, although they were known by other names.
Cister says
Russian Civil War… (1918-20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies.