The "White Reaction" was to a large extent the result of Bolshevik heavy-handedness with the population, in particular in the Caucasus and on the Don, so I don't know if you want to rely too much on that.
--- On Fri, 4/24/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] tasting the ashes of defeat
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 6:02 PM
> Matthias Wasser: "Trotsky was a
> jerk"
>
> Yes, what a jerk he was, when he led the Red Army to defeat
> the White Reaction. Only a jerk would ever have committed
> himself to the armed overthrow of capitalist reaction. And
> what a jerk, to object to protest at the Stalinisation of
> the Communist Party, to risk all to expose its barbarities.
> How lucky we are to have a giant like Matthias Wasser and
> not a jerk like Leon Trotsky with us today.
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