Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose leadership consisted of former officers of the Russian imperial army. In the receivedand simplifiedversion of this history, those Jews who were drawn into