CONFLICT WITHIN
Mar 18, 2021
2 minutes
WORDS: EMMA SLATTERY WILLIAMS
the wake of the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik government was not universally recognised, and Russia was plunged into a bitter civil war. The Red Army, founded by Leon Trotsky, sought to defend what the revolution had achieved, while groups of counterrevolutionary forces, known as the Whites (comprising monarchists and liberals alike), attempted to
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