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White movement

1917–1922 · 20th century · Also known as White Army, White Guard, Whites (Russian Civil War)

The White movement was the loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War. Led mainly by former tsarist officers such as Kornilov, Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenich and Wrangel, and supported at times by the Allies and by Cossack hosts, its armies fought from the Don and Kuban, Siberia and the Baltic. Divided in its aims and hostile to national independence movements, it was defeated by the Red Army, and its last forces left Crimea in 1920.

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