RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR (nov 7, 1917 – oct 22, 1922)

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CAUSES:
- closure of the constituent assembly
- Bolsheviks imposing one-party dictatorship
- Seized power by force: opponents claimed they had no right to rule Russia
- Brest Litovsk

SIDES:
THE REDS
- Bolsheviks: led by Trotsky

WHITES:
- various groups made up of the Bolshevik's opponents
- led by former tsarist officers
- uncoordinated attacks due to lack of common goal except for hatred of the bolsheviks

GREENS:
- peasant army fighting for independence from control of anybody.

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