The Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War

Revolution does not precede counter revolution, temporal or logically. One cannot stage a revolution such that one will not face a counter revolution. No sensible revolutionary seeks to avoid conflict with counter revolutionaries. They seek to win that conflict. So in the summer of 19 18, everything was happening pretty much as expected. But they were still very powerful, still dangerous. And so even while the bourgeois imperialists were engaged in this capitalist civil war called wa war one, they would stop at nothing to crush the socialist revolution in its infancy. The first armed allied intervention after the october revolution came at the behest of the young soviet regime.