Before jumping into the first battles of the Civil War in Episode 203, we have to take some time to discuss the actions of the Bolsheviks, later Communists, on the political front.

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Sources:

A People's Tragedy The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

The Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement, March 1921 by M.V. Glenny

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movments in Russia, 1918-1922 by Vladimir N. Brovkin

Civil War in Europe, 1905-1945 by Stanley G. Payne

Civil War in South Russia, 1918 by Peter Kenez

Communism and the East: The Baku Congress, 1920 by Stephen White

The Eastern Front 1914-1920: From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War by Michael S. Neiberg & David Jordan

Episodes from the Early Cold War: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1917-1927 by Michael Jabara Carley

Harmonicas for Lenin? The Development of German Economic Policy Toward Soviet Russia December 1918 - June 1919 by Robert Himmer

Red Advance White Defeat Civil War in South Russia 1919-1921 by Peter Kenez

Arkhangel'sk, 1918: Regionalism and Populism in the Russian Civil War by Yanni Kotsonis

Russia and Europe: Diplomacy, Revolution, and Economic Development in the 1920s by Teddy J. Uldricks

Soviet Policy Toward Germany during the Russo-Polish War, 1920 by Robert Himmer

The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 by William Henry Chamberlin

The Problem with Generals: Military Observers and the Origins of the Interventionin Russia and Persia, 1917-1918 by Brock Millman

The Political Significance of German-Soviet Trade Negotiations, 1922-5 by R.P Morgan

The "Russian" Civil War, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World by Jonathan D. Smele

The Transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy: An Analysis of Stalin's Views by Robert Himmer

Why Did the Communists Win or Lose? A Comparative Analysis of the Revolutionary Civil Wars in Russia, Finland, Spain, and China by Pavel Osinsky and Jari Eloranta

The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley

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