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Emma Dwyer Page 1 5/7/2007 Did the reds win the civil war, or did the whites loose it? History tells us the Bolsheviks (reds) did manage to eventually seize power over Russia in October 1920, however the question many historians ask is, 'did the reds win due to their careful planning, strength and unity, or was it purely down to the failures of their opposition, the whites?'. I will be looking at the possible answers to this question in this essay. The red army consisted of many different groups of people, old provisional government supporters, old tsarist soldiers, nationalists and separatists (who wanted independence) and basically anyone who hated the Bolsheviks and their ideas. The only thing they shared was a hatred for the reds, whereas the Bolsheviks all shared the same views. As you can imagine this made the Reds far more unified and a lot stronger than the whites. The whites...

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