White Guard movement

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The White Guard movement was a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik, counterrevolutionary forces that fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War following the 1917 Revolution.

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instanceOf anti-Bolshevik movement
counterrevolutionary movement
political-military coalition
alsoKnownAs White forces
White movement
Whites
conflict Russian Civil War
consequence mass emigration of White émigrés
country Russia
endTime 1923
foughtAgainst Cheka
surface form: Bolshevik Cheka units

Red Army
Red Guards
goal overthrow Bolshevik regime
preserve united Russian state
restore pre-revolutionary order
hasIdeology Russian nationalism
anti-communism
conservatism
monarchism
hasPart Russian Army (Wrangel)
surface form: Armed Forces of South Russia

Don Cossack forces
Kolchak government
surface form: Kolchak government forces

Kuban Cossack forces
Northwestern Army
Siberian Army
Volunteer Army
White Army
Finnish Whites
surface form: White Finns

liberal constitutionalist groups
monarchist militias
various Cossack hosts
influenced Russian monarchist organizations in exile
White émigré communities
notableCommander Alexander Kolchak
Anton Denikin
Lavr Kornilov
Mikhail Alekseyev NERFINISHED
Nikolai Yudenich
Pyotr Wrangel
opposedBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Red Army
opposedTo Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Soviet power
partOf Russian Civil War
result defeat
startTime 1917
supportedBy Czechoslovak Legion
France
Japan
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States

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White movement alsoKnownAs White Guard movement