b. Why did the Bolsheviks win the civil war?
As opposition to the Bolsheviks grew in response to their policies, a brutal civil war developed in Russia. The Reds fought the Whites in a bitter struggle in which the latter was supported by foreign capitalist powers. Ultimately, the Red Army was victorious and the Bolsheviks went on to consolidate control and establish the Soviet Union. Why did a civil war break out in Russia? As you have seen above (and...