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Red Guards



 
  Red Guards may refer to one of the following.

Communist uses

  • Red Guards (Finland)
    Red Guards (Finland)

    The Red Guards formed the army of Red Finland during the Finnish Civil War in 1918. The combined strength of the Red Guard was about 30,000 at the beginning of the Civil War, and peaked at 90,000-120,000 during the course of the conflict....
    , during the Finnish Civil War
  • Red Guards (Russia)
    Red Guards (Russia)

    For other uses of the term see Red GuardIn the context of the history of Russia and Soviet Union, Red Guards were armed groups of workers formed in the time frame of the Russian Revolution of 1917....
    , during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War
  • Red Guards (Bavaria), in the Bavarian Soviet Republic
    Bavarian Soviet Republic

    The Bavarian Soviet Republic, also known as the Munich Soviet Republic was, as part of the German Revolution of 1918-19, the short-lived attempt to establish a socialist state in form of a Soviet republic in the Free State of Bavaria....
  • Red Guards (Hungary), in the Hungarian Soviet Republic
    Hungarian Soviet Republic

    The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a Communism regime established in Hungary from March 21 until August 6, 1919, under the leadership of B?la Kun....
     (1918-1919)
  • The Red Guards (China)
    Red Guards (China)

    Red Guards were a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in the China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution....
    , composed largely of students and were formed under an already established state to advance the interests of one faction of the Communist Party of China against other factions, during the Cultural Revolution
  • The Red Guard Party (United States)
    Red Guard Party (United States)

    The Red Guards were a Chinese American civil rights group active during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The movement drew inspiration from a variety of sources including the Boxer Rebellion, the Red Guards in China, and the Black Panthers....
    , a militant Chinese-American civil rights grouped closely modeled after the Black Panthers


Other uses

  • The fictional Emperor's Royal Guard
    Emperor's Royal Guard

    Royal Guards are soldiers who protect Emperor Palpatine in the fictional Star Wars universe. They appear in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and in the third prequel film, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ....
    , elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe, also sometimes referred as "Red Guards"
  • Redguard, the fictional race in the popular Elder Scrolls game series
  • The Krathin Daeng or Red Guard, one of the more well known death squads active in Thailand in the 1970s