HIST 1002 Study Guide - War Communism, Great Disappointment
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The red army faced serious challenges: the fact that there was a new war after going through the first world war was not met with much excitement (lack of enthusiasm, the red army soon became so big it was hard to supply it with materials that were needed (food, fuel, machine guns, etc. , illness and disease that swept through the army (more soldiers died from disease than fighting during the civil war) Changes between the classes: the socialists were not trying to create a democratic system where people were equal in front of the law, they felt that workers were oppressed in these societies (cid:224) wanted to reverse the patterns of inequality (put higher class members on the bottom and workers to the top, trying to create a worker"s state (workers were given he most opportunity in this state, created a new legal system and created laws to give the majority working party the power to judge.
