Green Army
The Green Army ( зеленоармейцы / selenoarmejzy ), informally also known as the Green or Green Partisans , was a partisan army in the Russian Civil War . It was founded in 1918 and consisted of 30,000 men. Most were peasants dispossessed or deserted by the Red Army . They fought both the Red and White Armies to oppose their food confiscation.
literature
- Vladimir N. Brovkin: Behind the front lines of the civil war. Political parties and social movements in Russia, 1918-1922 , Princeton, NJ (Princeton University Press) 1994. ISBN 0-691-03278-5
- Oliver Henry Radkey: The unknown civil war in Soviet Russia. A study of the Green Movement in the Tambov Region, 1920-1921 , Stanford (Hoover Institution Press) 1976. ISBN 0817965513
- Karl Schmiedel / Helmut Schnitter : Civil War and Intervention 1918 to 1922. Military-historical outline of the civil war and foreign intervention in Soviet Russia . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic , East Berlin 1970.
Individual evidence
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