The History of Russia from 1801 to the Present by Rosina Beckman

The History of Russia from 1801 to the Present by Rosina Beckman

Author:Rosina Beckman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Other
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing


THE CIVIL WAR

By this point, only part of Russia—Moscow, Petrograd, and much of the industrial heartland—was under Bolshevik control. Ukraine slipped under German influence, and the Mensheviks held sway in the Caucasus. The countryside belonged to the Socialist Revolutionaries. Given the Bolshevik desire to dominate the former empire, civil war was inevitable.

The Red Army was recruited exclusively from among workers and peasants and immediately faced the problem of creating a competent officers’ corps. Trotsky met this problem by mobilizing former officers of the imperial army.



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