Why Did the Red Army Win the Civil War in Russia? / History Lessons / MINAEV

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The Russian Civil War (1917–1922) became a tragedy of nationwide scale and one of the heaviest shocks of the 20th century. Years of violence and chaos shattered the institutions of the former Russian Empire and broke the familiar lives of millions of people—with its customs, connections, and ideas about tomorrow. The armed conflict’s result was the establishment of Soviet power, and roughly a million people emigrated, leaving the country forever.

This episode is devoted to the final phase of the war: the advance of Yudenich’s troops on Petrograd, the defeat and evacuation of the White Army in the South and in Crimea, the Polish intervention, events in the Far East, as well as peasant and national uprisings against the Bolsheviks. We sum up the overall confrontation and examine why the Red Army won.

Contents:
00:00 About the episode
01:14 Civil War in the North of the country
04:19 White general Yudenich
07:15 The march of the White Army on Petrograd
10:35 The economic situation in the country
15:43 The advance of Poland
20:39 Polish occupation
23:00 Budyonny’s Army
25:06 Defeat of the Red Army and the peace treaty
28:33 The Battle for Rostov
30:11 Grigory Kotovsky and battles for Odessa
32:07 Evacuation of the White Army
35:29 The Novorossiysk tragedy
37:58 General Wrangel creates the Russian Army
39:55 Who fought for the Whites
41:46 Fighting near Kahovka
45:04 Mikhail Frunze
47:50 Evacuation from Crimea
50:00 Red Terror in Crimea
52:56 The Republic of Turkestan
55:05 The Basmachi vs the Red Army
55:46 The Armenian SSR and the Georgian Republic
57:16 Makhno’s Army
59:05 The Tambov uprising
01:02:20 Kronstadt mutiny
01:04:31 The final front of resistance
01:08:45 The Japanese occupation
01:14:43 Defeat of the White Army in the Far East
01:18:08 Results of the Civil War
01:21:56 How the heroes of the Civil War fared

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