Green Army soldiers

idialogy

a generalized name for irregular, predominantly peasant and Cossack armed formations that opposed foreign interventionists, the Bolsheviks, and the White Guards during the Russian Civil War. In a broader sense, "greens" is a definition for the "third force" in the all-Russian Civil War.

history

The Greens began to appear en masse in the spring and summer of 1918, when both the White Guards and the Reds launched a forced, large-scale mobilization. Dodgers who did not want to serve hid in the forests (hence the name), and in response to terror and repression in the rear of the territory controlled by one side or another, they began to create partisan detachments, which were often supported by the respective enemy. Thus, partisans can be divided into conditionally red-green and white-green [6]. In Ukraine in 1919, "greens" also called participants in the detachments of Ataman Zeleny, who fought alternately against the "whites", "reds", German troops and the Hetmans [7]. The Belarusian and Polish ataman (batka) Bulak-Bulakhovich called himself "Green General". In April 1919, an uprising against the authority of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia A. Denikin began in the Black Sea Governorate. On December 1, 1919, in Gagra (territory of the Georgian Democratic Republic), at a congress of peasants who supported this uprising, the Committee for the Liberation of the Black Sea Governorate was formed. Its forces fought with Denikin's forces in January-April 1920. The peasant uprisings of 1918-1919 had strong national and regional differences and many ideological nuances, but they put forward a number of the following homogeneous demands[3]: Black redistribution of communal land. The end of the food tax and the state monopoly on grain and other food products, a return to a free local market. Free Soviets, that is, self-government. This meant Soviets without communists everywhere, and in the former Pale of Settlement, Jews and Germans were added to the list. The main exceptions were Western Siberia and the Urals, where slogans in support of the Constituent Assembly were heard in 1919, as well as Tambov, where the Antonovites fought for it even in 1921. No state farms and communes imposed from above, which were often identified with the introduction of a new serfdom. Respect for religion, local and national customs and traditions. These requirements.

leaders

ataman N. A. Grigoriev † Ataman Green † P. M. Tokmakov † A. S. Antonov † D. S. Antonov † I. P. Kolesov † E. M. Mammoths † M. V. Trump K. P. Waxbox

enemies

White movement, anarcho-syndicalists, anarcho-communists, communists, interventionists, Entente, central powers.