So, the Bolsheviks had seized and consolidated (to a certain extent) their revolution. They had changed their name to the ‘Communists’. They had also accepted the unpopular terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. They were also still only a relatively small group with their support mainly derived from industrial workers in the towns, while they had little or no party organisation in more rural areas. Which were the groups in opposition to the new communist dictatorship during the Russian civil war?