WebReds were bolsheviks or communists if you like it better. White were forces trying to stop them from taking the power. White guardians (my own grandfather too) were led mainly …

WebWhite and red: Tales from the Russian Revolution Two men chose opposing sides in the events 1917. Their decisions changed forever the lives of their families. During the …

WebIn February 1918 the Red Army overthrew the White Russian-supported Kokand autonomy of Turkestan. Although that move seemed to solidify Bolshevik power in Central Asia, …

WebRussian Civil War, (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and …

WebThe White armies. Soldiers in Admiral Kolchak’s White army in Siberia, 1919. The White armies (also known as the ‘White Guards’ or ‘Whites’) were counter-revolutionary groups …

WebThey fought independently and this made it easier for the Red Army to defeat them individually. Brutality and corruption White Army forces often behaved with great brutality …

WebRussian Revolution, also called Russian Revolution of 1917, two revolutions in 1917, the first of which, in February (March, New Style ), overthrew the imperial government and …

WebThe Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from 7 November 1917 to 16 June 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and …

WebThe whites thought that they would overthrow the reds quickly with the help that they had from other countries. The Reds, however, had a strong army and were also determined …

WebMoreover, in the 1920s and the 1930s the White Movement established organisations outside Russia, which were meant to depose the Soviet Government with guerrilla …