Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia's role in World War One. However he could not avoid a civil war. The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921.

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet ...

greatly aggravated by the war. It was this misery which Lenin deliberately set himself out to exploit. He was not, he never pretended to be, an original thinker. From the moment of his discovery ...

However, as the Civil War developed, the White Armies began to ... Divided leadership- lacking a single figurehead like Lenin, different generals had conflicting aims Whites became hated and ...

Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin, who carried out a peace agreement ... WWI contributed to the 1917 Revolution, followed by a Civil War between the “Reds” (Bolsheviks) and the “Whites ...

April 4, 1917 Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning the Provisional Government for its ... ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire Late March 1918 - October 1922 The Russian ...