Two participants in the Russian revolution were reportedly the as called Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. The Mensheviks were thought to be the more liberal of the two but similar views based on communism; believed to be a dictatorship of the prolateriat though elitism wasn’t discarded all together. The as called Socialist Revolutionary Party was the third participant. Founded in 1900, the SRP was said to have won many votes in Russia’s thought to be first ever election of 1917. According to various reports the consequence was prohibition by the Bolsheviks and the beginning of the Russian civil war. Some members of the Socialist revolutionary party are reported to have joined the Bolsheviks, believed to be more right wing. The civil war ended in October 1922 with victory for the Bolsheviks, but not without concessions.
There was various foreign intervention in the aftermath of the first world war. The as documented Russian famine, reportedly beginning in the early spring of 1921 and lasting throughout 1922 is believed to have caused the death of 5 million people. Said to be a consequence of many years of war, resulting in neglect of the thought to be Volga region, a vast plain as described, encompassing Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine and Romania. Many may have turned to western allies for food.