anti-Bolshevik
Britishnoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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The eventual leader of Russia’s anti-Bolshevik armies, Gen. Anton Denikin, described Kornilov as “a banner. For some of counterrevolution, for others of the salvation of the Motherland.”
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
Members of the White Army disagreed on whether they sought an anti-Bolshevik communist government or the return of a tsarist government.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
During Russia’s civil war between the Red Army and the anti-Bolshevik White Army, Pilsudski resisted pleas for Poland to help the Whites.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Mr. Natirboff was born in the Crimean Peninsula of what was then imperial Russia, where his father was an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Army.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022
Cossack rebellions under Kaledin and Kornilov broke out on the Don and under Dutoff in the Urals; and Scherbachev collected a mixed anti-Bolshevik force on the borders of the Ukraine.
From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
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