Red Guards
Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard le ...
largely comprised students during China's Cultural Revolution.
Red Guard(s) or Redguards may also refer to:
Communist and socialist groups
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Worker-Peasant Red Guards
The Worker-Peasant Red Guards (WPRG; ), also translated as Workers and Peasants' Red Militia (WPRM), is a paramilitary force in North Korea. It is the largest civil defense force in North Korea. It was established on 14 January 1959 by Kim Il-s ...
, militia in North Korea
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Red Guards (Russia)
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, during the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War
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Red Guards (Finland)
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, during the Finnish Civil War
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Red Guard Party
The Red Guard Party was a Chinese-American youth organization formed in February 1969. It was named after the Red Guards of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Origins
The Red Guard formation resulted from several societal and economic pressures ...
, a militant Chinese-American civil rights group closely modeled after the Black Panthers
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Red Guards (Bavaria), in the
Bavarian Soviet Republic
The Bavarian Soviet Republic, or Munich Soviet Republic (german: Räterepublik Baiern, Münchner Räterepublik),Hollander, Neil (2013) ''Elusive Dove: The Search for Peace During World War I''. McFarland. p.283, note 269. was a short-lived unre ...
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Red Guards (Hungary), in the
Hungarian Soviet Republic
The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Szocialista Szövetséges Tanácsköztársaság) (due to an early mistranslation, it became widely known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic in English-language sources ( ...
(1918–1919)
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Red Guards (Italy)
The Red Guards ( it, Guardie Rosse), also known as Proletarian Defense Formations ( it, Formazioni di Difesa Proletaria), were a paramilitary organization affiliated with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and later the Communist Party of Italy (P ...
, during the Biennio Rosso
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Young Red Guards Cadet Corps, a paramilitary unit in
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...
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Red Guards (USA)
The Red Guards were American " Marxist–Leninist–Maoist collectives of community organizers and mass workers" originating in Los Angeles with other branches operating in Austin, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte, as well as St. Louis ...
, American Marxist–Leninist–Maoist collectives
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Red Guards (Ceylon)
Red Guards () were a mass, student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes
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, military wing of the
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; ) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist party and a former militant organization in Sri Lanka. The movement was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 ...
Other groups
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Red Guard of Senegal
The Red Guard of Senegal (French: ''Garde Rouge du Sénégal'') is a unit of the Senegalese Gendarmerie that is responsible for presidential security. It also has ceremonial duties and assists in general policing. It is very similar in concept to ...
, a gendarmerie in charge of presidential security
Fictional uses
* Red Guards (
Emperor's Royal Guard
Sheev Palpatine, also known by his Sith name Darth Sidious, is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas. Initially credited as the Emperor in the original trilogy films, '' The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) ...
), fictional elite Imperial corps of the ''Star Wars'' universe
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''The Red Guard'' (novel), a 1967 novel in the Killmaster series of spy novels
* Redguards, a fantasy race of ''
The Elder Scrolls
''The Elder Scrolls'' is a series of action role-playing video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The series focuses on free-form gameplay in an open world. '' Morrowind'', '' Oblivion' ...
'' universe
* ''
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'', a 1998 computer game based on ''The Elder Scrolls'' universe
See also
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Red Army (disambiguation)
The Red Army was the army of Soviet Russia (1918–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1946).
Red Army may also refer to:
Armies
*Bavarian Red Army of the Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Red Scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which a ...
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Red Squad
In the United States, Red Squads were police intelligence units that specialized in infiltrating, conducting counter-measures and gathering intelligence on political and social groups during the 20th century. Dating as far back as the Haymarket ...
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