Don Army

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The Don Army was a White movement military force composed largely of Don Cossacks that fought against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf White movement military force
armed force
counter-revolutionary army
alliedWith Russian Army (Wrangel)
surface form: Armed Forces of South Russia

Volunteer Army
conflict Russian Civil War
country Russia
engagedIn Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
surface form: Don region campaigns of the Russian Civil War
ethnicComposition Don Cossacks
foughtAgainst Red Army
Soviet Russia NERFINISHED
headquartersLocation Novocherkassk
historicalEra Russian Revolution era
post-World War I period
ideology White movement
anti-Bolshevism
language Russian
militaryBranch land forces
notableCommander Afonasiy Bogaevsky
Pyotr Krasnov
Vladimir Sidorin NERFINISHED
operationalPeriod 1918
1919
early 1920s
opponentIdeology Bolshevism
opposed Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks
partOf White movement
politicalGoal defense of Don Cossack autonomy
restoration of non-Bolshevik rule in Russia
recruitmentBase Don Cossacks
surface form: Don Cossack Host
region Don region
status disbanded
usedMilitaryTactics cavalry operations
mobile warfare

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