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‘The introduction of War Communism was the main reason for the Bolshevik…

- - - - Machine guns, detachment not less then 75 men.
        
        Farming by subsistence
        
        Drought, disruption of war
        
        Famine in 20 and 21
        
        10 million Russians dead in civil war, more than half died of hunger.
        
        grain harvests in 20 and 21 produced less than half of that in 1914
      - Hang over 100 Kulaks, 1920 Lenin
    - - Tambov uprising. 20000 guerillas.
  - - - In two years bought all industry under control
      - Nationalization did nothing to increase production
        
        Military needs given priority, denying industry key materials
        
        index of gross industrial output,
        100 1913,
        31 1921
        
        Hyperinflation
        
        rouble 1920 = 1% 1917
        
        Deprived of workers
        
        Fleeing civil war
        
        pop of Petrograd and Moscow dropped by half, 18 and 21.
        
        Conscription
- - - - unrealiable
        
        seldom on time
      - Whites too reliant upon it
    - - fought as seperate detachment
        
        reason
        
        not bound with an collective belief
        
        not willing to sacrifice infividual interst
    - - allow Reds to pick off whites seperately
  - - - origins
        
        cheka terror
        
        Grain requisitioning
        
        Commissars spying on workers
      - Stimulated by "workers' opposition" group
      - Main demands
        
        End of Bol monopoly of power, special food raitions
        
        Freedom of speech
      - Why so serious?
        
        sailors hailed by Trotsky as 'saviors of the rev' in 17.
        
        Within the ranks of communists
  - - - gain central industrial area(moscow; petrograd)
        
        control of railway
        
        able to form a chain of supply
        
        proximity to industries
        
        gain supplies
    - - whites' cooperation with foreign counries
        
        make Red stands out as the defender of national interest
    - - trotsky
        
        strategy
        
        defend internal line of communication and transportation
        
        railway
        
        sense of purpose
        
        help create a new proletariat world
        
        discipline
        
        enlisted ex-tsarist officers
        
        use their families as hostages
      - lenin
        
        vague promise of national autonomy
        
        help with the relationship with non-Russian
        
        decisive decision
        
        red terror
- - - - outlaw of other parties
      - dissolution of constituent assembly
      - bolshevik's little grip on its power
      - Lenin want this
        
        a short war better than long harass/counter-revolution of other parties