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Lenin had promised free elections to the new Constituent Assembly in 1917.
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The Provisional Government took control of Russia after the Tsar's abdication.
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The two combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favouring political monarchism, capitalism and social democracy.
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Lenin knew he had to fulfil his promise of giving people “bread, peace and land”. He set up the Council of People’s Commissars.
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The White Army was a common collective name for the armed formations of the White movement and anti-Soviet governments during the Civil War in Russia.
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Lenin put Trotsky in charge of negotiating a peace treaty. He told Trotsky to try to spin out the peace negotiations as long as possible. By February of 1918, however, there was no revolution and the Germans began to advance again.
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Lenin announced the New Economic Policy (NEP). This one brought back capitalism for some sections of Russian society.
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The Red Army defeat the White Army because,they were not really a strong alliance and therw was limited support from the Russian population.
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The Red Army was united and disciplined. It was a brilliant led by Trotsky.
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Lenin supervised the making of a New Constitution that turned the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Lennin suffered several strokes in 1922 and 1923, Lenin died in January 1924.
