Foreign intervention
•Finally, these groups within Russia were helped by the Great Powers, angry that Russia had dropped out of the First World War.
•Britain and France were afraid because the Bolsheviks believed in World Revolution – the Bolsheviks set up the Comintern, led by Zinoviev, which said it would cause communist revolutions all over the world. •Consequently, the Allies sent armies to destroy the Bolsheviks – British, American and French armies attacked from Archangel, Ukraine, and Vladivostock.