Question

What were the causes of civil war between the bolsheviks and the Russian Army of the non bolsheviks socialist????

3 marks

Answer 1

after the success of the October revolution, the Bolsheviks ordered land redistribution to the peasants. soldiers in the Russian army, mostly peasants, went home for the redistribution and deserted the army.

this emboldened the non Bolshevik socialists, liberals and supporters of autocracy to start a civil war.

their leaders moved to South Russia and organized troops to fight the Bolsheviks. During 1918 and 1919, the green(socialists revolutionaries) and whites (pro Tsarists) controlled most of the Russian empire. As the troops fought a civil war with the Bolsheviks! supporters of private property among the whites took harsh steps against peasants who had seized land. such actions led to the loss of popular support for the non Bolsheviks