The czech army consisted of prisoners and deserters from the Austria-Hungarian empire from the provinces of Bohemia and Slovakia. The Tsar gave his consent to set up a national force which they became to fight against Austria-hungary in the summer of 1916 with their leader called Tomas Masaryk. When Masaryk noticed that Lenin was making peace with the central forces, and lenin refused to let them fight against the western forces, he decided to move the …
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…allowed Germany to concentrate fully on the western front. Also, the west were capitalist and were seriously against communism and its ideas and the Bolsheviks being communists were a threat to their way of life. All these people had self beneficial reasons why they were all against the bolsheviks,which made rising up against the party quite easy,especially in the case of the workers whom were at first in supoort of the bolshevik party.