Causes of Russian Civil War

Before the war with Germany had ended civil war broke out in Russia. Several groups known as ‘Whites’ opposed the Bolsheviks. There were socialists, liberals, nationalists, and former Tsarist generals. They set up separate government in different parts of Russia and began to fight the Bolsheviks. Britain and France supplied some of them with arms, and also sent soldiers, in the hope that if they won they would bring Russia back in to the war against Germany. In the east Japan, and in the west Poland, took advantage of the chaos caused b...