[lbo-talk] what's left

[c b]

Chris Doss
In the Russian Revo (more precisely, in the Russian Empire from circa
1917 to circa 1920) you had Bolsheviks, EsErs, anarchists, Ukrainian
nationalists, Polish nationalists, an internally fractured White
movement (some devoted to reinstating absolutism, some partisans of
one or another national independence movement), various other
independence movements (Georgian, Cossack, "Mountaineer," Polish,
Finnish), religious movements in greater or lesser overlap with the
one or more of the above, etc. The Chechens started out shooting
Whites and within 5 years' time were shooting Bolsheviks. Which side
were they on?

^^^^^^^
CB: Obviously, the Chechens switched sides.

War provides the most definite situation of only two sides; or in a
war there are only two sides.