Don Cossack forces

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Don Cossack forces were anti-Bolshevik Cossack military units from the Don region that played a major role fighting for the Whites during the Russian Civil War.

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Don Cossack forces canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cossack military unit
White movement armed group
military formation
activePeriod 1917–1920
alliedWith Armed Forces of South Russia
Denikin’s forces
Volunteer Army
associatedWith Don Republic
basedIn Don region
conflict Russian Civil War
country Don Republic
disbandedIn early 1920s
enemyOf Soviet Russia
linked to: Soviet Union
engagedIn Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
operations in the Donbas
operations in the North Caucasus
ethnicComposition Don Cossacks
fate defeated by the Red Army
formedFrom Don Cossack Host
linked to: Cossack Host
goal defense of Cossack autonomy
restoration of pre-revolutionary order
headquartersLocation Novocherkassk
historicalRegion Don Host Oblast
ideology Cossack regionalism
anti-communism
monarchism
militaryBranch artillery
cavalry
infantry
militaryRole cavalry
irregular troops
notableLeader Afrikan Bogaevsky
Aleksei Kaledin
Pyotr Krasnov
opposedTo Bolsheviks
Red Army
organizedAs corps
divisions
regiments
partOf White movement
recruitedFrom Don Cossack stanitsas
repressedBy Soviet authorities
linked to: Soviet government
status disbanded
supported White governments in Southern Russia
tookPartIn anti-Bolshevik uprisings in the Don region
typeOfGovernmentForces counter-revolutionary forces
usedLanguage Russian

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White movement hasPart Don Cossack forces
White Army hasPart Don Cossack forces
White Guard movement hasPart Don Cossack forces
Afonasiy Bogaevsky commanded Don Cossack forces