Why the Bolsheviks Won the Civil War The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921. During this time the Bolsheviks faced massive opposition to their rule in the form of the White Armies, led by the former officers of the Tsarist state, and also from intervention by the forces of foreign countries. The Bolsheviks were surrounded, and often outnumbered by their opponents, and had no experienced military commanders. At times, their situation seemed hopeless. Yet, by the start
The Reds' Defeat Over the Whites in the Russian Civil War From the summer of 1918 a civil war began in Russia between the Bolsheviks (called the reds) and their opponents (called the whites). There were several reasons why the reds won the civil war in 1921, I will go through each of them in turn before coming to a conclusion on which I think was the most influential. The Reds were a single minded group with a single political aim based on an important single geographical area of Russia
Oddly enough, Focus Features and Focus Features World Wide, which for the purposes of this analysis will be lumped together, remains one of the few art house/independent movie studios that is owned by one of the major six studios. Ironically, this distinction also lends Focus Features a distinct advantage. Typically, the independent film industry requires a studio to distribute/produce a certain number of projects in order to fund initial overhead or licensing costs. This puts a significant financial
The oxford dictionary defines anarchism as “belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.” Therefore, philosophical anarchism is a form of political philosophy which rejects all types of hierarchy and authority not just states or governments. However, there are a number of problems with philosophical anarchism. Firstly, the most prominent argument is the impracticality, whereby people need the state