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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.
* [[The Political Officer]]: [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Subverted. Mad Baron [[Ungern-Sternberg]] was convinced that he was a [[War Is Glorious|glorious]] Medieval warlord with the [[Heroic Lineage]] of several peoples. Well he was certainly a warlord, he behaved [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|rather like]] a medieval one, and he was probably [[Take That|no more incompetent]] then a lot of them were in real life. He gathered a bunch of [[Former Regime Personnel]] and had a reign of terror that was so awful that even the most rabid anticommunist would root for the Reds when they came to do him down. Which they did in a routine manner as being trying to act like a warrior of legend does not fit one for modern warfare.
* [[The Remnant]]: Baron Wrangel's Crimean White remnant. Merkulov's Far Eastern White remnant. General Pepelyaev's last campaign is this IN SPADES.
**In this department it did not help that often the quickest shorthand for a Red to win promotion-or just survive-was to convince his superiors of his loyalty by being as brutal as possible. Which included [[We ARE Struggling Together!|denouncing colleagues]] who were not as brutal as oneself.
* [[State Sec]]: the CHEKA.
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