Civil War, the Red Terror and the Birth of the USSR

The causes, events and outcomes of the Russian Civil War. Initial Bolshevik reforms and decrees and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; the nature of the opposition (White forces, Right Socialist Revolutionaries and Allied Intervention); the leadership of Trotsky and the Red Army; the Red Terror and the Cheka under Dzerzhinsky; War Communism and nationalisation; reasons for victory including the Kronstadt Uprising and the Tambov peasant revolts; and outcomes including the 10th Party Congress, the Ban on Factions, the NEP and the creation of the USSR.