The Red Terror (Russian: красный террор, krasnyy terror) in Soviet Russia was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks—chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police—in mid-1918 after the beginning of the Russian Civil War.

The word “comrade” has its roots in the 16th-century French camarade/camerade and Spanish camarada, ultimately from the Latin camera (“chamber” – originally “chamberful”, then “chamber mate”).

It’s a form of emphasizing equality. Everybody was a comrade, the president of the republic and the lowest of the lowest person. Even for the most hardened Party members, the word ‘comrade’ was associated to a certain style of speaking, more official, in tone with a communist style of behaving.

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sovjét, Russian pronunciation: [sɐˈvʲet], literally “council” in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies of the late Russian Empire, primarily associated with the Russian Revolution, which gave the name to the latter states of the Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.

the Investigative Committee of Russia

12 million casualties

The major reasons the whites lost the Russian civil war was because of Division, No Morale, Failure to find non Russian allies and Brutality and corruption. The Whites army was never a united force and instead had many leaders such as Yudenich, Kolchak, Deniken and Wrangel. All of these men wanted glory for themselves.

The Bolsheviks (Russian: Большевики, from большинство bolshinstvo, ‘majority’), also known in English as the Bolshevists, were a radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov that split from the Menshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour …

Bolshevism (from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary Marxist current of political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the ” …

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule.

The situation climaxed with the October Revolution in 1917, a Bolshevik-led armed insurrection by workers and soldiers in Petrograd that successfully overthrew the Provisional Government, transferring all its authority to the Soviets. They soon relocated the national capital to Moscow.

Vladimir Lenin

Economically, widespread inflation and food shortages in Russia contributed to the revolution. Militarily, inadequate supplies, logistics, and weaponry led to heavy losses that the Russians suffered during World War I; this further weakened Russia’s view of Nicholas II. They viewed him as weak and unfit to rule.

1905 Russian Revolution

They were: (i) The February Revolution or political stage when Tsar abdicated his throne and the Mensheviks under Kerenskii came to power. (ii) The October Revolution or economic and social stage, when the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin overthrew Kerenskii’s government and seized control.

The main social cause of the revolution in Russia is that the division of Russian society: the Russian people were divided into two groups the rich and the poor. The rich class included the nobles, clergy and the feudal lords, while the farmers, serfs, and laborers came under the poor class…