The Russian Civil War broke out because many Russians never favored the rule of the Bolsheviks under Lenin. The Bolshevik Revolution was a military coup rather than a popular revolution. The Bolshevik Party was a minority party even among the other revolutionary parties such as the Social Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, Constitutional Democrats and others. Not only was it a minority party, but its policies were actively disliked by many if not most of the people in the country.
The Bolshevik takeover was tolerated because it was felt that a temporary communist government would be better than the conservative Provisional Government. They also felt that the Bolsheviks would never be able to retain control of the government since they would be voted out of power once the proposed democratically elected Constituent Assembly instituted a proper form of government. Then the Bolsheviks refused to permit the Constituent Assembly to sit, arrested most of the members of the other political parties and suppressed all opposition to their rule. Many Russians, including Russian army commanders were either completely opposed to Bolshevik rule or so disillusioned by the repressive tactics of the Bolsheviks that they became determined to oust the Bolsheviks from power by force. This became the Russian Civil War.
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Food shortages lead to popular uprising in Russia
There has never been a Communist revolution in Russia, as that would mean the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a moneyless classless stateless society. The Bolshevik coup led to the establishment of state capitalism.
Leon Trotsky was not apart of the October Revolution. However he lead the Red Army in the November Revolution as a part of the Bolshevik Party.
Lenin's Revolution is known as the October Revolution of 1917 or the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. There had been another Russian Revolution in 1917 called the February Revolution, but Lenin did not figure in that at all. He rose to power because of the October Revolution.
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Trotsky led the Bolshevik/Communist Red Army forces in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution of 1917.
The Russian Revolution did not lead to World War 1, as the Bolshevik Revolution took place in 1917, 3 years into the war.
The October Revolution was the second of the two Russian Revolutions in 1917. The October Revolution, also called the Bolshevik Revolution, is when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik followers took control of the Russian government from the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky. It put he Bolsheviks, later called Communists, in charge of Russia. Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution was not a revolution of the people. It was an armed insurrection or military coup by the Bolshevik Party alone. It did not remove Tsar Nicholas II from the throne. That had already been done in March of 1917.
Food shortages lead to popular uprising in Russia
The Bolshevik Revolution, also known as the October Revolution of 1917, took place mainly in Petrograd, Russia, but it occurred in many other larger cities as well. Petrograd had been known as St. Petersburg but the name during WWI. St. Petersburg had been the Tsarist capital city of Russia and remained the capital under the Provisional Government set up when the Tsar abdicated after the February Revolution of 1917. When the Provisional Government in Petrograd proved to be no better than Tsarist rule, the people refused to support it. Lenin and the Bolsheviks simply stepped in and took power from the main governing body in Petrograd and announced that governmental power was now vested in the workers' councils (called Soviets) that had formed in the larger cities.
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There has never been a Communist revolution in Russia, as that would mean the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a moneyless classless stateless society. The Bolshevik coup led to the establishment of state capitalism.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, returned from exile in 1917 to lead the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. He was exiled in Europe prior to the revolution.
Leon Trotsky was not apart of the October Revolution. However he lead the Red Army in the November Revolution as a part of the Bolshevik Party.
In Russian, the term 'Bolshevik' means 'majority men', who were in favour of a Communist Revolution lead by the Proletariat. There were also the Mensheviks, or 'minority men', who wanted a Socialist Revolution led by the Middle Classes- in effect, replacing one set of bosses with another set of bosses, who would have governed the country on the basis of inequality of education and academic elitism as oppose to inequality of wealth. Those in favour of a Proletarian revolution were in the majority, hence the term 'Bolshevik'.
Lenin's Revolution is known as the October Revolution of 1917 or the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. There had been another Russian Revolution in 1917 called the February Revolution, but Lenin did not figure in that at all. He rose to power because of the October Revolution.