ABSTRACT
Much of the summer of 1918 was occupied by small anti-Bolshevik revolts which the Bolsheviks blamed indiscriminately on socialist parties. Bolshevik forces being at that time very weak in Siberia, the Czechs soon held the whole TransSiberian Railway to Vladivostok. In the Civil War Allied missions supported the Whites against the Bolsheviks and Allied governments proclaimed a blockade of Russia which was not lifted until January 1920. The Civil War proper, fought out between the Red Army and several White armies led by former Imperial generals and officers, began in late 1918 and was over by the end of 1920. Quite early in 1918 long before the Civil War began, the Bolsheviks became involved in a territorial war with the Ukraine. The White armies were passionately anti-Bolshevik and anti-revolutionary, but they were not united by any common policy or purpose. Workers and revolutionary intellectuals were even less inclined to support the Whites, however much they were suffering under the Bolsheviks.
