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Volunteer Army

1917–1920 · 20th century

The Volunteer Army was the main anti-Bolshevik White army in southern Russia during the Russian Civil War, formed in late 1917 by generals Mikhail Alekseyev and Lavr Kornilov and later led by Anton Denikin. Based in the Kuban and North Caucasus, it fought the Red Army and local Soviet republics. It was defeated in 1920.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Volunteer Army. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/volunteer-army
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