HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Movement, Saint Petersburg, Central Powers
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Topic 4 rise of the soviet union. I had gone badly for russia: tsar nicholas ii left petrograd, the capital, to command the russian army against the central powers- In mid-march 1917, tsar nicholas ii abdicated (the february revolution according to the julian calendar that russia was using - the west was using the gregorian calendar that was 13 days advanced from the. In 1898 russian marxists had secretly formed the social democratic party: at the party"s second congress, it split into two groups: The civil war (1918-1920: the civil war in russia was between the white armies and the red armies - the bolsheviks, it began as a counter-revolution of the white armies consisting of monarchists, aristocrats, liberals, Cossacks, etc. fighting against the red armies this revolution against the bolsheviks included small military intervention by british, french, Moscow during the civil war: the communists nationalized land, factories, banking, etc. and confiscated all church property.
