Labels:text | screenshot | poster OCR: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION SOVIET UNION Thl OVERVIEW CIVIL WAR ERUPTS SOVIET UNION FAMINE SPREADS KEY PLAYERS NEW UNION FORMS STALIN'S REIGN Minister 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, in 1918, civil war erupted. By 1921 the Bolshevik Red Army, led by Trotsky, had defeated the White Army and gained control of most of the Russian Empire. More than 100,000 died in the war. CHRONOLOGY .NEWSFLASH ..
