Why did Russian civil war breake out in 1918
Assembly in which the Bolsheviks had won 175 seats and the Social Revolutionaries
370 seats. However, when it met in 1918, Lenin used the Red Guards to close the
Assembly, and killed anybody who objected. The Social Revolutionaries fought back
by attacking the Bolshevik government. The Bolsheviks were also opposed by the
Mensheviks, who had controlled the Provisional Government, and who they had
toppled from control of the Soviets in September, and by the Tsarists, who wanted to
rescue Nicholas II and put him back on the throne. Lenin made peace with
Germany ,the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia had lost much of Russia's best
agricultural and industrial land to Germany, including Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania and the former army officers were angry about this. Also, the Bolshevik
government had taken land from the Tsar and the nobles and given it to the
peasants, and the civil war was supported by those landlords who had lost their land
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