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Russian Civil War: Government
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[B]y Rumsfeld's and Casey's logic, the U.S. Civil War is disqualified because the institutions of government functioned throughout the four-year conflict. Indeed, they worked well enough that the Union was able to conduct a presidential election during the war's height. And in large portions of the country, especially in those areas where few battles were fought, schools remained open and many people went about their daily lives without witnessing violence. New England factories produced weapons and war supplies unimpeded.
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A civil war is a prolonged armed conflict between groups that inhabit the same state. Typical civil wars are fought to replace a government or gain concessions from the government. In some cases, the government is not a party to the conflict.[1]
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There were several major civil wars in the Roman Empire. The United States Civil War was fought ostensibly over the rights of the individual states versus the power of the federal government, but the cause of dispute over which those rights were claimed was the institution of slavery.
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