HIST 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Saint Petersburg, White Movement, Anton Denikin
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To get access to the national wealth (not a feature of socialism but purely a survival measure of the. Bolsheviks since they needed currency to actually be able to pay all those at their disposal) 1. led to big businesses, not in favour of bolshevism even before this occurred, turned against the. 2. a. left sr"s would try to provoke disturbances in petrograd and moscow over the following 2-3 months = assassinations etc. Bolsheviks were prepared to go against russian national and territorial interests in defence of their regime. 3. this was the last nail in the coffin as the old officer classes esp. could not swallow the harsh terms of the b-l by the end of 1918, there were various groups red, whites, blacks and. Left wing parties: the whites were much more diverse and more interesting in terms of demonstrating the anti-bolshevist feeling, core was imperial military officers whom disagreed with the b-lt not monarchists though.
