> The Whites were a coalition of warlords that were quite happy to carry out pogroms, massacres, exterminations of jews, and other enemies of the counter-revolu

> The Whites were a coalition of warlords that were quite happy to carry out pogroms, massacres, exterminations of jews, and other enemies of the counter-revolution. I was more expressing that the day-to-day practices of war communism made "no pogroms or massacres" less of a value add than it might seem at first blush, even for Jews. I've read that the two things that doomed the Whites were a lack of a coherent message re: after the counter revolution, and lack of a coherent strategy for winning the war, because it was just warlords. And even then, it was less that the Reds decisively won over the population so much as the Whites completely failed to. I am, by and large, pretty far left, but the history of the Russian revolution makes me highly suspicious of anyone advocating armed revolt.