English Explanatory Dictionary

White Army

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. a collation of anti-Bolshevik armed groups that fought the Red Army during the Russian Civil War

Word forms

White Army the White Army

Etymology

Calque of Russian Белая армия (Belaja armija). White was the traditional color of the antirevolutionary movement in some countries, adopted as a symbolic name by the Russian movement.

Related words

White Terror
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