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Hi
Who were jadidists.?
The Russian army began to break up when the Bolsheviks ordered land distribution. The following points describes the civil war that started after this: (a) The peasants and soldiers wanted to go home for the redistribution and deserted. The Bolshevik uprising was condemned by the non-bolshevik socialists, liberals and supporters of autocracy. The leaders of these groups went to South Russia and formed troops to fight against the Bolsheviks (the reds).
(b) The 'greens' (socialist revolutionaries) and 'whites' (pro-Tsarists) controlled the Russian empire during 1918 and 1919. The groups who were worried at the growth of socialism in Russia, namely the French, American, British and Japanese backed them.
The Bolsheviks and these troops fought a civil war which which leaded to looting, banditry and famine.
(c) The 'whites' took harsh steps against the peasants who had seized the land. This led to loss of support for the non-bolsheviks. By january 1920, most of the former Russian empire was controlled by the Bolsheviks. They received co-operation from the non-Russian nationalists and Muslim jadidists.
(d) In Khiva, in Central Asia the bolsheviks brutally massacred the local nationalities those who opposed socialism. This made the situation confusing about the representation of the Bolshevik government.
(e) In remedy, the Bolsheviks gave the non-Russian nationalities the political autonomy in the Soviet Union (USSR) that was created by them from the Russian empire in December 1922. But as the Bolsheviks opposed her nomadism, therefore it was only partly successful to win over the other nationalities.