The White movement of the Russian Civil War (1917-1923): the loose anti-Bolshevik coalition of former tsarist officers, liberals, Cossacks and monarchists who fought the Red Army for control of the former Russian Empire. At their 1919 peak two great White armies converged on the Bolshevik heartland — Anton Denikin's Armed Forces of South Russia drove north from the Don and Kuban to Orel, within striking distance of Moscow, while Alexander Kolchak's forces held Siberia from Omsk to the Urals. Disunited and outrun by the Reds, both offensives collapsed over the winter of 1919-1920.
Defeated by the Red Army: Kolchak was captured and shot in early 1920, Denikin's and Wrangel's forces evacuated the Crimea in November 1920, and the last White holdouts in the Far East fell by 1922, driving the movement into exile.
The standard military history of the war and the White campaigns of 1918-1920.
Sweeping narrative placing the White movement within the revolution and civil war.