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** Weasels: Greek smugglers on the Black Sea during the Civil War.
** Snakes: the Latvian Riflemen.
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* [[Former Regime Personnel]]: Some former regime officers joined the Red side (reason could be [[My Country, Right or Wrong]], political conviction or simple luck). Most were forced into service, often with their families taken hostage as incentive. They often had to prove their devotion to the Revolution, their unity with their underlings and generally whatever the unit council (soviet) wanted them to prove. A commissar who could override the commander's orders and had to execute his commander in case of (suspected) treason didn't make things easier. This trope is more specific to stories concerning the Red Navy than to stories concerning Red Army. A Determinator old-school Captain who endures this treatment by his crew and later leads them to the victory FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF THE REVOLUTION is almost a must in such stories.
* [[Gentleman and a Scholar]]: most of the intelligentsiya during the era. Also, [[Gentleman and a Scholar]] turned [[Officer and a Gentleman]] was the "hat" of the Alexeiev's elite regiment of the White army.
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* [[Memetic Mutation]]: one predating the Internet! Vasili Chapayev, a Red division commander who ended up as a popular Russian [[Russian Humour|folk joke]] character.
* [[Montages]]: Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneer of the development and use of the montage editing and montage was used prominently in some Soviet films of the 1920s.
* [[Church Militant|Mosque Militant]]: The Islamic portions of Russia did not welcome the Revolution and indeed often took it more as a chance for independence. They were not exactly fond of Whites either though they were known to shelter individual White fugitives and foreign agents on the lam.
* [[The Mutiny]]: It happens in revolutions.
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: a stereotypical White Guard. Except in earlier Soviet fiction, where they were portrayed as either [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] or ineffectual, alcoholic and decadent.
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