Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War is regarded as one of the mostimportant occurrences in the 20th century. There were notone but many reasons which sparked the Civil War in Russia.The event is at times clubbed together with the Great War.The number of people died in the Russian Civil War was sohigh that it shadowed the American Civil War. The end ofTsars saw different areas of Russia claiming for independence.Extremism and arrogance of some swept aside all humanityand raged on Russia and her people. There was situation ofcomplete chaos in Russia. The Civil War was between the RedArmy and the Whites. Although these two were the mainparties who were in war with each other there were severalothers who were revolting and fighting against them. TheBolsheviks or the Red Army won the war while the Whiteslost. World War I had left deep impacts on all the participatingcountries and Russia was not spared. The vitality andenthusiasm with which they entered the war had them suffermany fatalities. Irrespective of the many reasons why the CivilWar happened the consequences led to a new government,new thoughts of society and economy. The Bolsheviks wantedto uproot all the social problems which were existing in thesociety because of the difference in class. They did succeed tosome extent. Once Tsarist rule came to an end Communistmovement took over which was frightening. The rule of theCommunists did not last long but since its mere existencemade it look like one of the important happenings in thetwentieth century.

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