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Several opponents of Lenin, some ex-Mensheviks, pro-church and pro-empire formed the white army, while the communists formed the red army led by Leon Trotsky. The white army took most of the country (Siberia), but the whites had several internal divergences, the red army took the smallest part (the European part), but the was "better part", in which it had more industries, population, a better climate, etc. and it had few internal divergences. There were also Greens who were against everyone and wanted centrism and Blacks who were anarchists, who took Ukraine but later supported the Reds. There was also the execution of the Romanov family. Both sides committed massacres and atrocities, known as White Terror and Red Terror. There was the consolidation of the USSR, there were the so-called revolutionary courts that tried, arrested or executed the "counter-revolution".
After the civil war, Soviet Russia merged with other Soviet states, including the Ukraine SSR, and formed the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [w:Soviet Union]]. The brutal civil war severely devastated the Russian economy and caused the [w:Russian famine of 1921–1922|The Great Russian Famine]. Lenin saw the flaws of War Time Communism and realized that socialism could not be built in such a short time frame. He, therefore, enacted the [[File:NEP.png]] [w:New Economic Policy], which he described as
After the revolution, communism began to take influence, parties and movements in Europe, bringing the first red fear, eventually electing fascist and anti-communist leaders later. There are currently several debates and controversies regarding the Russian Revolution, with some extolling Lenin as a liberator of the oppressed from capitalism, others as a genocidal dictator who led the Russian people to misery and others considering him as a state capitalist because of the NEP.
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