White Movement

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The White movement (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, tr. Beloye dvizheniye), whose military arm was the White Army (¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿, Belaya Armiya) aka the White Guard (¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, Belaya Gvardiya), and as the Whites (¿¿¿¿¿ and ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ "White Guardsmen") comprised some of the politico-military Russian forces who unsuccessfully fought the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and later the Red Army in the Russian Civil War (1917-23). In the Russian context, White connoted three designations: political contra-distinction to the Reds, whose revolutionary Red Army supported the Bolsheviks and Communism; historical reference to absolute monarchy, specifically united Russia's first Tsar, Ivan III (1462-1505), styled "Albus Rex" ("White King"); and sartorially, that some White Army soldiers wore the white uniforms of Imperial Russia.

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