White Army, Black Baron, the Glossary
The Red Army is the Strongest (r), popularly known as "White Army, Black Baron" (r), is a marching song written by (1895–1961, a.k.a. Pavel Gorin, Pavel Grigoriev) and composed by Samuil Pokrass (1897–1939).[1]
Table of Contents
37 relations: Anthem, Austrian Civil War, Bella ciao, Communism, Crimea, Curzon Line, Die Arbeiter von Wien, Eastern European Jewry, Emperor of Russia, Engelbert Dollfuss, Freiherr, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, International Brigades, International Phonetic Alphabet, Julius Fučík (journalist), July Revolt of 1927, List of socialist songs, March (music), Nadezhda Krupskaya, North Sea, Pravda, Protest song, Pyotr Wrangel, Red Army, Red Vienna, Republikanischer Schutzbund, Revolutionary Military Council, Russian Civil War, Samuel Pokrass, Spanish Civil War, Taiga, The Internationale, Vladimir Lenin, Weimar Republic, White Army, XIII International Brigade, Yiddish.
- Russian military marches
- Russian military songs
- Songs about Russia
- Songs about military officers
- Soviet military songs
Anthem
An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.
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Austrian Civil War
The Austrian Civil War (Österreichischer Bürgerkrieg) of 12–15 February 1934, also known as the February Uprising (Februaraufstand) or the February Fights (Februarkämpfe), was a series of clashes in the First Austrian Republic between the forces of the authoritarian right-wing government of Engelbert Dollfuss and the Republican Protection League, the banned paramilitary arm of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria.
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Bella ciao
"Bella ciao" ("Goodbye beautiful") is an Italian song dedicated to the partisans of the Italian resistance, which fought against the occupying troops of Nazi Germany and the collaborationist Fascist forces during the liberation of Italy.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
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Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
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Curzon Line
The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I. Based on a suggestion by Herbert James Paton, it was first proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, to the Supreme War Council as a diplomatic basis for a future border agreement.
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Die Arbeiter von Wien
"Die Arbeiter von Wien" ("The Workers of Vienna") is a song, which probably was written in 1927 when 89 protesters were killed during the July Revolt by police forces which were firing into the outraged crowd.
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Eastern European Jewry
The expression Eastern European Jewry has two meanings.
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Emperor of Russia
The emperor and autocrat of all Russia, also translated as emperor and autocrat of all the Russias, was the official title of the Russian monarch from 1721 to 1917.
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Engelbert Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuß (alternatively: Dolfuss,; 4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934) was an Austrian politician who served as Chancellor and Dictator of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
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Freiherr
Freiherr (male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc.
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Honourable between 1858 and 1898, then known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
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International Brigades
The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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Julius Fučík (journalist)
Julius Fučík (23 February 1903 – 8 September 1943) was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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July Revolt of 1927
The July Revolt of 1927 (also known as the Vienna Palace of Justice fire, Wiener Justizpalastbrand) was a major riot starting on 15 July 1927 in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
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This article contains three lists: songs of the socialist parties and movements, anthems of self-proclaimed socialist states, and musical movements that feature prominent socialist themes.
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March (music)
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band.
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Nadezhda Krupskaya
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (p; – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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Pravda
Pravda (a, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.
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Protest song
A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).
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Pyotr Wrangel
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Пётр Николаевич Врангель,; Peter von Wrangel; 25 April 1928), also known by his nickname the Black Baron, was a Russian military officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
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Red Vienna
Red Vienna (German: Rotes Wien) was the colloquial name for the capital of Austria between 1918 and 1934, when the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) maintained almost unilateral political control over Vienna and, for a short time, over Austria as a whole.
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Republikanischer Schutzbund
The Republikanischer Schutzbund ("Republican Protection League") was an Austrian paramilitary organisation established in 1923 by the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria to defend the Austrian Republic in the face of rising political radicalisation after World War I. The Schutzbund, whose membership peaked at about 100,000 men in 1925, was armed and organised on military lines.
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Revolutionary Military Council
The Revolutionary Military Council (Revolutionary Military Council), sometimes called the Revolutionary War Council or Revvoyensoviet (Реввоенсовет), was the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union.
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Samuel Pokrass
Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass (Самуил Яковлевич Покрасс) (1894 in Kiev – June 15, 1939 in New York City) was a Soviet composer of Russian and Jewish origin.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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Taiga
Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
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The Internationale
"The Internationale" (italic) is an international anthem that has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist, communist, socialist, democratic socialist, and social democratic movements.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
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White Army
The White Army (pre-1918 spelling, although used by the Whites even afterwards to differentiate from the Reds./Белая армия|Belaya armiya) or White Guard (label), also referred to as the Whites or White Guardsmen (label), was a common collective name for the armed formations of the White movement and anti-Bolshevik governments during the Russian Civil War.
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XIII International Brigade
The 13th International Brigade – often known as the XIII Dąbrowski Brigade – fought for the Spanish Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War, in the International Brigades.
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Yiddish
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
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See also
Russian military marches
- Air March
- Den Pobedy
- Farewell of Slavianka
- Gandzia
- Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the Red Army"
- Katyusha (song)
- Long Live Our State
- March of the Artillerymen
- March of the Defenders of Moscow
- March of the Soviet Tankmen
- Moscow Nights
- My Army
- Preobrazhensky Regiment March
- Song of the Soviet Army
- The Sacred War
- V Put
- We Are Marching in Wide Fields
- White Army, Black Baron
Russian military songs
- Air March
- Alyosha (song)
- Dagestan, You Holy Fatherland
- Echelon Song
- March of the Artillerymen
- March of the Soviet Tankmen
- My Army
- Na polye tanki grokhotali
- Roads (Red Army Choir song)
- Smuglyanka
- Song of the Soviet Army
- The Sacred War
- V Put
- White Army, Black Baron
Songs about Russia
- Abdul Abulbul Amir
- Back in the U.S.S.R.
- Do the Russians Want War?
- Dominion (song)
- Jukebox in Siberia
- Leningrad (song)
- Long Live Our State
- March of the Soviet Tankmen
- Mother Russia (Renaissance song)
- Party Like a Russian
- Rasputin (song)
- Russian Spies / Occult Enemies
- Russians (song)
- Stalin Wasn't Stallin'
- State Anthem of the Soviet Union
- The Song of the Volga Boatmen
- Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)
- U.S.S.R. (song)
- White Army, Black Baron
- Wide is My Motherland
Songs about military officers
- A Drop of Nelson's Blood
- Arminio (Biber)
- Black Jack March
- Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Song
- Colonel Bogey March
- Corporal Clegg
- Crawford's Defeat by the Indians
- De Vlaamse Leeuw
- Funkahdafi
- General Grant's March
- General Pershing: One Step
- Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire
- I'm Asking You Sergeant, Where's Mine
- I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now
- Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin
- Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine
- Lafayette (We Hear You Calling)
- Lafayette Blues
- Major-General's Song
- Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
- Maréchal, nous voilà !
- Mr. Custer
- Oliver Cromwell (song)
- Sacré Charlemagne
- Slattery's Mounted Foot
- Song of Roland
- Terror Couple Kill Colonel
- The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley
- The Galloping Major (song)
- The General (Dispatch song)
- The Song of La Palice
- White Army, Black Baron
- Wilhelmus
- Would You Rather Be a Colonel with an Eagle on Your Shoulder or a Private with a Chicken on Your Knee?
- Zenga Zenga
Soviet military songs
- Air March
- Den Pobedy
- Echelon Song
- Farewell of Slavianka
- Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the Red Army"
- Katyusha (song)
- Long Live Our State
- March of the Artillerymen
- March of the Defenders of Moscow
- March of the Soviet Tankmen
- Moscow Nights
- My Army
- Na polye tanki grokhotali
- Po dolinam i po vzgoriam
- Roads (Red Army Choir song)
- Smuglyanka
- Song of the Soviet Army
- Tachanka (song)
- The Sacred War
- V Put
- White Army, Black Baron
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Army,_Black_Baron
Also known as Pavel Grigorev, Red Army is the Strongest, The Red Army is the Strongest, White Army, Black Baron (song).