TheRussian Cvil war lasted from 1917 to 1921. It all started few years after Lenin's Boleviks overew the existing provisional government, when signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. It was the treaty that ended the war with Germany, but gave tem a huge chunk of land and people. Not only did the siging of the treaty infurriate some Russin people but also the British and French. They were at war with Germany and because Russia backed out of the war and gave up land and people to Germany, the German army got a huge boost in numbers and power.

Lenin 's communist party became known as the Red Army and their opposition was called the White Army. The Whites consisted of mainly people form mid eastern Russia and were allied with the French and the British; becuse they want their revenge on lenin for almost screwing them over by giving Germany all that land. The Red Army ended up winning because of better resorces and better leadership. The end resut was a country left in ruins.

I say that in reality both countries lost because all they did was destory their own counrty. Nothing even ended up changing because Lenin started the war in power and ended the war, still, in power.