ocr: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION SOVIET UNION Tbi CINIL WAR OVERVIEW ERUPTS SOMIET UNION FAMINE SPREADS REY PLAYERS NE UNION FORMS STALINS REIGN Mlinister of war, Leon Trotsky takes the podium in Red Square CIVIL WAR ERUPTS Anti-Communists (White Russians) opposed the reforms made by the Bolsheviks and, 111 1918, civil war erupted. By 1921 the Bolshevik Red Army, led by Trotsky, had defeated the White Army and gaine d control ofmost of the Russian Empire. More tharl 100,000 died 111 the war. CHRONOLOCY ..NEWSFLASH..
