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The White Army (Russian: Бѣлая армія [b] /Белая армия, romanized: Belaya armiya) or White Guard (Бѣлая гвардія/Белая гвардия, Belaya gvardiya), [3] also referred to as the Whites [4] or White Guardsmen (бѣлогвардейцы/белогвардейцы, belogvardeytsi), was a common collective ...
The White movement (Russian: pre–1918 Бѣлое движеніе / post–1918 Белое движение, romanized: Beloye dvizheniye, IPA: [ˈbʲɛləɪ dvʲɪˈʐenʲɪɪ]), [b] also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known ...
Soldiers in Admiral Kolchak’s White army in Siberia, circa 1919. Broadly speaking, the White armies (also known as White Guards or simply Whites) were military forces that participated in the Russian Civil War. The White armies fought against the Bolshevik Red Army for control of Russia.
This chapter provides background on the inter-war Russian emigration, its numbers, geographic spread, demographic make-up, and political divisions. It explains that most Russian émigrés expected their exile to be short; this was particularly true of military émigrés.
7 mar 2002 · This book traces the fate of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the anti-Bolshevik White Armies who fled Russia at the end of the Russian Civil War.
In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, hundreds of thousands of Russians fled their country and went into exile, where they formed their own society, commonly known as ‘Russia Abroad’.
In November 1920, 100,000 troops of the White Russian Army of General Wrangel were evacuated from the Crimea. These men constituted the most cohesive group in the inter-war Russian emigration, and represented the grass roots of émigré society. In exile, after the troops dispersed, they maintained.
