However, as the Civil War ... the Bolshevik cause- the establishment and survival of the revolution and a communist Russia. Many feared that foreign intervention would bring an end to Russian ...

At one point during the Civil War, Leon Trotsky, the leader of the Communist Red Army, became so amused by the black market trading of weapons by his opponents, the Whites, that he sent a letter to ...

However he could not avoid a civil war. The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921. During this time, the Bolsheviks faced massive opposition to their rule in the form of the ...

1917 Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government March 3, 1918 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First ...

When the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 Russia was still at war with Germany, and the Russian armed forces, largely as a result of Bolshevik effort, were in an advanced stage of ...