Against all odds the Russian Revolution fought off counter-revolution and foreign intervention for three years in a bloody civil war. Eighty years after that war's conclusion it is still a battleground for revolutionary socialists. The conflict remains a favourite target for right wing attacks on the Russian Revolution, and is a major focus of left wing critics who imprint their ideological confusion in the aftermath of the collapse of Stalinism onto the revolutionary period. The policies associated with War Communism – ending workers' control of the factories, requisitioning grain from the peasants and the constriction of democracy – are seen as the seedbed of forced industrialisation, collectivisation, the show trials and the gulag. A collection of documents from the civil war is introduced with this argument: "The events of 1918-1922 ... foreshadow all the horrors of the Stalin period". [1]

In assessing the trajectory of the revolution, however, it is important to separate......

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Title: Quiet American
Approximate Word Count: 344
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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