Lenin And Problems After The October Revolution

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problems of the new government, and in “
saving the socialist republic” . One of the largest problems that Russia faced
prior to the October Revolution was finally ended, though its effects were still
to be felt.
Almost immediately afterwards, in 1918, Civil War begins. The battling
White Army divided amongst different leaders and interests left the Red Army,
led by Trotsky victorious. Lenin does succeed in eliminating opposition to the
Soviet Union in November of 1920. As in the case of the World War, a simple end
to the fighting did not signify an end to the devastation that had been left as
a consequence.
The economic and social problems that arose from the end of the czarist
regime were dealt with by Lenin initially unsuccessfully. War communism, a
forced socialized economic policy began with the confiscation of surplus grain.
It then extended to all other products. Abusive detachments fought peasant
resistance with the terror of the Red Army, and in 1919 when they ...

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