Question

Trace the causes of civil war in Russia

Answer 1

The first reason was that the Bolsheviks had many enemies: the Social Revolutionaries (angry because Lenin had closed the Assembly); ... They were afraid because the Bolsheviks wanted to cause communist revolutions all over the world. There werethree reasons why Civil War broke out in Russia in 1918.

Answer 2

Hey, that’s a mighty complex question. You’d be better off reading some details about it. But in short (in chronological order):

Long-term crysis in the current government system with a very poorly qualified monarch and the aristocracy unable to provide the necessary management functions (which led to vast inequality, poverty and famine).

Short-term crysis in the government system, caused by unbeleivably inept management of the war economy, which led to shortages, famine and general ruin of the country’s civilian economy. It was an additional factor that to many educated citizens it was crystal clear that the sorry state of affairs could have been avoided if the monarchy has done it’s job properly.

Geneous funding for the revolutionary effort by the German intelligence.

A division of opinions on post-revolutionary future of Russia nad the world between radical revolutionaries (Bolsheviks) and moderate revolutionaries (left and right socialist-revolutionaries and constitutional democrats most notably). As you know, the radicals tend to win always, and so thee did this time.

After the Bolsheviks seized power the Civil War was directly sparked by the fact, that the Bolshevik program in fact INCLUDED a civil war. The program of the Bolshevik government involved the eradication of non-proletarian classes and the means of that eradication was actually civil war. Of course, the other classes didn’t want to be eradicated, so they started to resist. That resistance of the aristocracy, nationalists, officers, kazaks, some peasants, clergy and other social groups/classes targeted for extermination was the essence of Russian Civil war