The Russian Civil War: The Brutal Struggle That Forged the Soviet Union

Описание: (Open by setting the scene of the immense chaos and stakes following the 1917 Revolutions)

The Russian Civil War (1917-1923) was not a single conflict, but a sprawling, multi-sided chaos that erupted from the ashes of the Russian Empire and the Bolshevik Revolution. It pitted the Red Army of the new Soviet state against a loose coalition of "White" monarchists, liberals, and socialists, while also unleashing nationalist movements, peasant revolts, and foreign interventions across the former empire.

This documentary is your complete guide to one of history's most complex and devastating internal conflicts. We track the rise of the Red Army under Leon Trotsky, the failures and infighting of the White movement, the brutal guerrilla war of the "Greens," and the roles of foreign powers from Britain to Japan. It was a war of ideologies, atrocities, and famine that killed millions and cemented the totalitarian character of the Soviet state for generations to come.
Sources / Further Reading:

"The Russian Civil War" by Evan Mawdsley

"A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924" by Orlando Figes

"The White Guard" by Mikhail Bulgakov (Fiction, but a powerful primary perspective)

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