[lbo-talk] more noxious crap

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 3 13:18:10 PDT 2009


The Whites were not really representatives of the capitalist class. They were more representatives of feudalism. By and large -- there was a lot of variation within the Whites. Ataman Dudov was fighting for an independent "republic of Cossacks, Mountain Peoples*, and Free People of the Steppes**."

*That is, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis, Adyghs and other Caucasian peoples.

**That is, Kalmyks. Incidentally this is kind of interesting. The Kalmyks, Europe's only Buddhist people, sided with the Whites. I can't remember his name, but one Kalmyk ataman at the time fled Russia and then later returned to found the Society for the Assistance of the Buddhists of Russia. The Bolsheviks executed him though.

--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> The Bolshevik Red Guards seized power relatively peacefully
> in the ten days
> that shook the world, but that was a prelude to the vicious
> civil war which
> followed the reorganization of the white forces outside
> Petrograd and Moscow
> and foreign military intervention.
>



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