The Green armies, Green Army (Russian: Зелёная Армия), or Greens (Russian: Зелёные) were armed peasant groups which fought against both the Red Army and the White Army in the Russian Civil War. They fought to protect the communities in which they lived from requisitions or reprisals by either side. Closely associated with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, by far the largest grouping of the Russian Constituent Assembly, the Green Armies had, at least tacit support, throughout much of Russia. However, the main support base of the Green Armies, namely the peasantry, were largely reluctant to wage an active campaign during the Russian Civil War. Much of the armed strength of the Green Armies eventually became subsumed by the White Army.
[edit] See also
- Black Guards, an anarchist faction of the Russian Civil War known as the "Black Army"
- Blue Army
- Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
- Nikifor Grigoriev
- Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, also known as the Makhnovchina and the Black Army.
[edit] Sources
- "Socialist-Revolutionary Party appeal to the Bolshevik government, July 1919". University of East Anglia. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
- British Military Operations 1919-1939 by Brian Watson. Retrieved on 10 June 2008.
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