Talk:Green armies

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Question:

Does the Kuban-Black Sea army here correspond with the Kuban-Black Sea army of spring 1918, and the Taman Army of summer 1918, who escaped encirclement via the Caucasus mountains, or is this another Kuban-Black Sea Army?

Thanks

Jacob Haller 06:12, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

This is crap,but I don't have time to change it all now. The Green's were bourgeois nationalists.Harrypotter 17:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Ptolemy Barnes --86.29.192.7 12:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this page is crap, but bourgeuis nationalists!? I was under the opinion that the Green Army is an umbrella term, used to refer to various peasant militia that operated almost entirely independently during the Russian Civil War. In my experience, it is used artificially as it fits cosily alongside the Red Army and White Army.

I agree that the use of the name Green Army is used wrongly. I belive that the Greens were the Peasants who rose up in revolt, either in small scale sporadic ones, or in the larger scale ones like in the Volga during the War of the Black Eagle and perhaps, if he can be counted, Alexander Antonov's campiagn as he did raise a large force of 40,000 or so to fight against the Reds, and he didn't fight with the Whites as he was himself a former Bolshevik etc. The Green's weren't Nationalists. Not overall, some maye have been, but overall the use should be shown to sum up the peasant revolts, rebellions and bandit armies that roamed the Russian countryside during the war.