[4] When it was created, the structure of the Russian Army of the Provisional Government period was used, while almost every individual formation had its own characteristics.

For the first time, the name "White Guard" was used in Russia for Finnish police detachments created in 1906 to fight the revolutionary movement.

The White Armies comprised a number of different groups, who operated independently and did not share a single ideology or political goal.

The chain of command in each, as well as individual members, differed, from experienced veterans of World War I to fresh volunteers.

However, the total estimates for the White Terror are difficult to ascertain due to the role of multiple administrations and violence perpetrated by undisciplined, independent anti-Bolshevik forces.

Historian Ronald Suny noted that a higher proportion of anti-semitic attacks were committed by the White military, which accounted for 17% of the anti-Jewish atrocities during the Russian Civil War.

[13] After the October Revolution, the arrested generals Lavr Kornilov, Anton Denikin, Sergey Markov and others were released by Commander-in-Chief Nikolay Dukhonin before his removal and subsequent murder by the mob and went to Don to Ataman Alexey Kaledin.

The Don region abandoned the power of the Soviets and proclaimed independence "before the formation of a nation-wide, popularly recognized government".

[17] One of the first to join the Alekseyev Organization was Vasily Shulgin, who later became a member of the Special Meeting under Denikin.

[18] On 9 June, after the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Kappel in the army, the following were formed: 1st Volunteer Samara Squadron, Cavalry Squadron of Staff Captain Stafievsky, Volzhskaya Equestrian Battery of Captain Vyrypayev, horse reconnaissance, subversive command and economic unit.

[19] On 10 July, the People's Army again entered Syzran, occupied by the Bolsheviks, and threw them back to Simbirsk.

He suggested that the occupation of the city would break the Bolshevik plans to sign additional agreements with the Kaiser of Germany in Berlin, as he would deprive them of money from the "pocket of Russia".

He made a substantial reorganization of the forces of the White movement and carried out its integration into a single Russian Army on 23 September 1918.

Out of the remnants of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia that left for Crimea in May 1920, General Wrangel formed the armed forces that inherited the name "Russian Army" from the single Russian army of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Admiral Kolchak of 1919 – as the last of its fronts.