HIS242H1 Lecture 6: HIS242 Lecture 6
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Whites: anti-bolshevik faction led by kornilov and other generals: played up anti-semitism because trotsky and other bolshevik leaders were. Jews: supported by allied forces; popular opinion was against the whites due to their brutality. War communism: implemented by bolsheviks; state appropriated heavy industry and prohibited private trade; forcible requisitioning of food and raw materials: kulaks: wealthier peasants; set upon by poorer peasants. July 17th 1918: tsar and his family are executed in ekaterinburg because bolsheviks fear monarchist might rescue them. White army holds out until 1920; war in the pacific lasts until 1922. Red terror: september 1918; cheka had almost unlimited power and forced labor camps were set up to incarcerate (cid:494)enemies(cid:495) Summer 1919: reds defeat largest white army in ukraine; alexander kolchak(cid:495)s: miracle of the vistula: august (cid:883)9(cid:884)(cid:882); pilsudski(cid:495)s forces surround red army. Jozef pilsudski: created a federation of independent states (lithuania, ukraine and.
