White Movement - Structure and Ideology

Structure and Ideology

In the Russian context, White had three connotations:

  1. political contra-distinction to the Reds, whose revolutionary Red Army supported the Bolshevik government;
  2. historical reference to absolute monarchy, specifically united under Russia’s first Tsar, Ivan III (1462–1505), styled “Albus Rex” (“White King”); and
  3. sartorially, some White Army soldiers wore the white uniforms of Imperial Russia.

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