The Russian Civil War lasted from October 1917 to October 1922. ... Many of these locals used propaganda to explain their feelings of hatred during the Russian Civil War to either side. ... Trotsky was actually a former Menshevik that transferred over to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, before he served as the War Commissar for the Red Army from 1918 to 1922. ... " This ended the Russian Civil War. ... That is why the Bolsheviks won the civil war....

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... War communism was the policy pursued by The Bolshevik party during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920, until Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy. During the civil war Lenin had geared the economy towards the war against the opposition forces, the various strands of the divided "Whites". ... Major agricultural regions were occupied by the white armies during the Civil War, intensifying the food problem further. ... More recent historians...

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The main threat to Lenin's new empire came in the form of the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. ... Service argues that Lenin during the Civil war was too quick to resort to the Cheka and Red army stating; "Lenin preferred to overdo the blows than to risk letting an opponent survive the assault"[5] this could be seen as especially significant when we re-examine Lenin's use of force during the Kronstadt mutiny, although some would argue that this was an overuse of force, during the Civil war Lenin could not afford ...

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The similarities between the men are staggering: each followed the teachings of Socialism and Marxism, each had the tribulations of applying their methods during hostile resistance, war, economic collapse, and foreign invasion. ... The culmination of this style of rule came with the formation of the Red Army, which staged a ruthless civil war against the opposition from 1918 to 1921. ... During this time the Russian economy was in bad shape and worsening daily because of the strain the civil war was having. ... This particular institution was characterized by its increasing of central cont...

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During this time the leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin, was exiled to Switzerland as he disagreed with the revolutionaries who supported and co-operated with the Provisional Government. ... A short term consequence of the Tsar's abdication on 15 March 1917 was the civil war between the Red and the White armies. ... War communism was during civil war in 1918. During this time small factories nationalised, workers became under government control, private trading was banned and food was strictly rationed. ... Lenin introduced it to the Russian society as the peasants were starving and war co...

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On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. ... The movement simply went underground, and the rebellious Poles organized their own civil society, separate from the Communist government and its edicts. ... As a result, Poland held its first competitive elections since before World War II, and in 1989, Solidarity formed the first non-Communist government within the Soviet bloc since 1948. ... The collapse of communism in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. ... The Soviet econo...

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Building on Lenin's work, Stalin expanded the centralized bureaucratic system of the Soviet Union during the 1930s. A series of two five-year plans led to a massive expansion of the Soviet economy. ... Only after that, both the people of the USSR and the rest of the world have slowly become aware what really happened during Stalin' rule. ... He was political commisaar of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. ... During these trials, Marshall Tukhachevsky and Bukhrain were executed. ...

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