Reasons for white loss in Russian Civil War

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Reasons for White's loss
- Coordination
  - Many leaders who all sought their own power
  - Different ununified intentions
    - Some wanted Tsar to be reinstated
    - Some wanted dictatorship
    - Some wanted national autonomy
    - Some simply resented the Reds
    - Wanted constituent assembly
  - Geographical seperation
  - Idealogical seperation
  - Ethnic seperaration
  - Lack of communication
- Supplies and men
  - Only had 500,000 men at their peak
  - Little control of munition production
  - Deployed the same terror as the Reds
  - relied on foreign support to provide
- Failure of foreign intervention
  - no true foreign forces's offensive
  - Western forces didn't cooperate with others such as Japan
  - supplying to Whites poor, white receiving aid was poor
  - Countries' domestic affairs took priority
  - WW1 saw soldeiers demoralised and resources lowered
  - French practically did nothing
  - Whites refused peace talks with Reds proposed by foreign states
  - fear that foreign power would end Russian autonomy
  - no reason good enough to maintain intervention
- Red superiority
  - intense and successful propaganda
  - control of urban centres + railway
  - Lenin + trotsky skill
  - enticing cause of utopia
  - 5 million soldiers
Baltic Offensive = Foreign and anti-bolsh forces force Lenin to recognise 3 states' autonomy
Foreign strength and determination forces Lenin to reevaluate policy of Permanent Revolution

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