Whites

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Whites is an alternative name for the White movement, the loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces that fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1917–1923).

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Predicate Object
instanceOf counterrevolutionary movement
counterrevolutionary movement
historical movement
military coalition
military coalition
political movement
political movement
activeInConflict Russian Civil War
alternativeNameOf White movement
areaOfOperation Baltic region
Northwestern Russia
Siberia
Southern Russia
consequence emigration of White émigrés
country Russia
endTime 1923
goal overthrow of Bolshevik government
re-establishment of non-Bolshevik state
restoration of order in Russia
hasPart Armed Forces of South Russia
Northwestern Army
Russian Army (Wrangel)
Siberian Army
Volunteer Army
ideology anti-communism
conservatism
monarchism
nationalism
includesFaction Cossack forces
foreign interventionist forces
liberals
monarchists
republicans
language Russian
notableCommander Alexander Kolchak
Anton Denikin
Lavr Kornilov
Nikolai Yudenich
Pyotr Wrangel
opposedTo Bolsheviks
Red Army
religion Russian Orthodoxy
result defeat in Russian Civil War
startTime 1917
supportedBy France
Japan
United Kingdom
United States


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