Don Cossack forces

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Don Cossack forces were anti-Bolshevik Cossack military units from the Don region that played a major role fighting for the Whites during the Russian Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cossack military unit
White movement armed group
military formation
activePeriod 1917–1920
alliedWith Russian Army (Wrangel)
surface form: Armed Forces of South Russia

Russian Army in South Russia
surface form: Denikin’s forces

Volunteer Army
associatedWith Don Republic
basedIn Don region
conflict Russian Civil War
country Don Republic
disbandedIn early 1920s
enemyOf Soviet Union
surface form: Soviet Russia
engagedIn Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
operations in the Donbas
operations in the North Caucasus
ethnicComposition Don Cossacks
fate defeated by the Red Army
formedFrom Cossack Host
surface form: Don Cossack Host
goal defense of Cossack autonomy
restoration of pre-revolutionary order
headquartersLocation Novocherkassk
historicalRegion Don Host Oblast
ideology Cossack regionalism
anti-communism
monarchism
militaryBranch artillery
cavalry
infantry
militaryRole cavalry
irregular troops
notableLeader Afrikan Bogaevsky
Aleksei Kaledin NERFINISHED
Pyotr Krasnov
opposedTo Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Red Army
organizedAs corps
divisions
regiments
partOf White movement
recruitedFrom Don Cossack stanitsas
repressedBy Soviet government
surface form: Soviet authorities
status disbanded
supported White governments in Southern Russia
tookPartIn anti-Bolshevik uprisings in the Don region
typeOfGovernmentForces counter-revolutionary forces
usedLanguage Russian

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White Army hasPart Don Cossack forces
White Guard movement hasPart Don Cossack forces
White movement hasPart Don Cossack forces