The Russian Civil War (1917-1921) is a conflict that’s mostly ignored by public schools. For obvious reasons, teachers’ unions and the education industry prefer to focus on the Russian Revolution (1917) only: the “workers” rose up, overthrew the conservative bad guy, and lived happily ever after until WW2. End of story, right?
The true history of the Russian Revolution and ensuing Civil War is a lot more complicated. Not many people know that the conflict involved nearly a dozen modern nations, hundreds of thousands of troops, and advanced tactics that wouldn’t be seen again until the 1940s. An astounding 12 million people died, and it’s barely covered at all…
The history is interesting in its own right, but Wrangel also illustrates many lessons that Americans facing an out-of-control government and new wave of leftwing political violence should take to heart…
It’s important to understand from the get-go what radicals like the Bolsheviks want. Although the Czar voluntarily resigned to avoid conflict, the Bolsheviks arrested him and his entire family and imprisoned them in a remote villa. Then, one day, without trial or provocation, they brutally murdered the Czar, his wife, his children, their servants—even the family dogs. They did it because they wanted to and there was no one to stop them. They denied it, then they covered it up, then they celebrated it. Sound familiar?
Millions of people would be killed by communist forces or their indirect actions throughout the Russian Civil War. Millions more, through no fault of their own, had their property stolen by the communists and would be forced to live in poverty or flee their homelands altogether. The consequences of “losing” a major political upheaval are very real. Read more…
