Source #3 is highly useful to historians attempting to understand the mentality of the White Army and their motivations during the Russian Civil War Period. The sheer severity of this comparison between Trotsky and the devil suggests that the White army was desperate to reduce Trotsky to an enemy of pure evil to evoke a religion-rooted reaction from its own soldiers. However, this source is limited by its format: any
Source #3 is highly useful to historians attempting to understand the mentality of the White Army and their motivations during the Russian Civil War Period. The sheer severity of this comparison between Trotsky and the devil suggests that the White army was desperate to reduce Trotsky to an enemy of pure evil to evoke a religion-rooted reaction from its own soldiers. However, this source is limited by its format: any