They called themselves the Bolsheviks.
By Jan 1920: Bolsheviks controlled most of Russia.
The St Petersburg Bolsheviks.
We don't break bread with Bolsheviks.
March 1918: Bolsheviks made peace with Germany at Brest Litovsk.
When Bolsheviks ordered land redistribution,
Russian army began to break up.
Non-Russian nationalities were given political autonomy in USSR(created by Bolsheviks) in Dec 1922.
However, the socialist Georgian
government was the irreconcilable enemy of the Russians and the Bolsheviks.
On the same day, the Bolsheviks signed an agreement on neutrality with the Czechs.
November 1917: Bolsheviks conducted elections to the Constituent Assembly,
but they failed to gain majority support.
The allies also promised Krasnov assistance against the Bolsheviks, but refused to recognize his government.
While the Bolsheviks firmly established their authority at home… the Comintern
fomented revolution throughout the world.
Left communists supported the Russian revolution, but did not accept the methods of the Bolsheviks.
In November 1917, the Bolsheviks conducted the election but failed to gain the majority support.
In liberal Russia, Kolchak was turned into a hero and a martyr,
whom the"bloody Bolsheviks" destroyed.
On October 31, 1917(Old Style), the Bolsheviks entered Tsarskoe Selo in force and arrested Fr.
Much depends on whether the communists of today act like the Bolsheviks did a century ago.
Opponents of the Bolsheviks were not a united front and they had a lot of contradictions.
At the same time, local Bolsheviks and workers, who were supported by partisans, raised an uprising.
The secret police(called the Cheka first, and later OGPU and NKVD) punished those who criticised the Bolsheviks.
At the same time, a new wave of
peasant war began in Little Russia, now against the Bolsheviks.
White, ahead of the Bolsheviks, introduced the practice of concentration camps,
where prisoners of red Finns were sent.
The Bolsheviks offered the image of a"bright future"-
a just world, the Christian Kingdom of God on earth.
Georgian leaders, whose policies Denikin described as“anti-Russian,” did not want an alliance with the Bolsheviks or volunteers.
In November 1917, the Bolsheviks conducted the elections to the Constituent Assembly,
but they failed to gain majority support.
In addition, Sorokin was eventually executed by the Bolsheviks but managed to earn the praise of the Denikin:.
The Bolsheviks entered into negotiations with the Czechs to liquidate the Political Center
and transfer all power to them.
Source B 4.2 Making a Socialist Society During the civil war, the Bolsheviks kept industries and banks nationalised.
Poland defeated Western Ukraine in the Polish-Ukrainian War, but failed against the Bolsheviks in an offensive against Kiev.
After the Revolution, she fled the country to France,
and her luxurious home was taken over by the Bolsheviks.