Why did civil war break out in 1917 in Russia
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Russian Civil War
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Russian Civil War, (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies.
Vladimir Lenin, 1918.
Vladimir Lenin, 1918.
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Russian Civil War
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DATE
June 1918 - 1920
LOCATION
Russia
PARTICIPANTS
Bolshevik
France
Japan
Socialist Revolutionary Party
United Kingdom
United States
White Army
KEY PEOPLE
Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny
Anton Ivanovich Denikin
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze
Rüdiger, count von der Goltz
Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Vladimir Lenin
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov
Leon Trotsky
Nikolay Yudenich
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Russian Revolution
Seeds Of Conflict
Russia’s disastrous performance in World War I was one of the primary causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which swept aside the Romanov dynasty and installed a government that was eager to end the fighting. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) whereby Russia yielded large portions of its territory to Germany caused a breach between the Bolsheviks (Communists) and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, who thereupon left the coalition. In the next months there was a marked drawing together of two main groups of Russian opponents of Lenin: (1) the non-Bolshevik left, who had been finally alienated from Lenin by his dissolution of the Constituent Assembly and (2) the rightist whites, whose main asset was the Volunteer Army in the Kuban steppes. This army, which had survived great hardships in the winter of 1917–18 and which came under the command of Gen. Anton I. Denikin (April 1918), was now a fine fighting force, though small in numbers.
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Civil War broke out in Russia in late 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution. ... The Red Army fought for the Lenin's Bolshevik government. The White Army represented a large group of loosely allied forces, including monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism.