White Guard

The term White Guard may refer to:

  • White Guard (Finland), part of the White Army of the 1918 Finnish Civil War
  • White Guard (Slovenia), part of the Axis collaborators in Slovenia during the Second World War
  • Military arm of the Russian White movement
  • The White Guard, a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the Russian White movement


Famous quotes containing the words white and/or guard:

    “We shall walk in velvet shoes:
    Wherever we go
    Silence will fall like dews
    On white silence below.
    We shall walk in the snow.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)

    “The old man forgot one thing. This England of his is Christian and Anglo-Saxon. And so are her corridors of power, and those who stalk them guard them with jealousy and venom.”
    —Colin Welland (b. 1934)