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The Bolsheviks won the civil war because their enemies had no reform program, the Bolsheviks used terror, and Trotsky made the Red Army brutally effective.
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The Bolsheviks won the civil war because their enemies had no reform program, the Bolsheviks used terror, and Trotsky made the Red Army brutally effective.
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Jiang argues that the Red Army purge, though disastrous by conventional standards, may have improved Soviet wartime adaptability by removing conservative senior hierarchy.
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Jiang argues Soviet adaptability in World War II was partly enabled by the purges, while German doctrine became brittle once its initial plan failed.
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Jiang lists the third conventional charge against Stalin: before the war he purged the Red Army leadership and left top generals dead or imprisoned.
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"a coup d 'etat against provisional government and this will eventually lead to something called the russian civil war and at this time in..."
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"...trotsky or leon leon trotsky or leon leon trotsky organizes the red army and leon trotsky is an incredible orator as well as organizer..."
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"...brutal but it works very effectively okay so he turns the red army into a very effective uh fighting force and this was what..."
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"50 or 57 army corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders. So what he did was he completely wiped out the entire leadership..."
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"...by purging the army. In the late 30s, Stalin made the Red Army more innovative and better prepared the German invasion in 1941, all..."
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"Pointlessly for many, many months, okay? They really didn't have a plan because the plan was always to destroy the head of a snake...."
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"So now we're saying this is the difference between the Germans and the Russians is Hitler did not purge his military. Stalin did purge..."
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"...Stalin did was before the outbreak of war, he purged the Red Army, the Soviet Army, of its leadership of generals. Okay? So the..."
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"...and that's why they won the war. Leon Trotsky organized the Red Army in the war against the White Army, okay? There were also..."
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"...capitalists, all right? So let's look at the Purge of the Red Army. This is from Wikipedia. The Purge of the Red Army and..."
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