Strategy and tactics - Red strengths

what was Trotsky’s strategy?

based on maintaining lines of communication within the Red Army,breaking the supply lines to White army groups and preventing White army groups from coordinating their activity

what was internal to this strategy?

tactic of controlling and maintaining the railways, especially in the areas around Petrograd and Moscow

What did Trotsky and Lenin plan?

for links between the Red Army forces to be secured,to ensure the defence of Red’s 2 most important centres of industrial production and where the Bolsheviks first consolidated their power

what was the Red Guard co-ordinated to do?

go on the offensive and pushed the White forces to the front lines

what else did the Reds employ?

Cheka brutality

what could happen without the Cheka?

it would’ve been difficult to impose strict wartime measures (War Communism and militarisation of labour) both of which were needed for victory