What is White émigré?
[[File:White army departure.jpg|alt=Evacuation Russian Army of General Baron P. N. Vrangel from Crimea|thumb|306x306px|Evacuation [[White Army|Russian Army]] of General Baron [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Wrangel]P. N. [[Pyotr Wrangel|Vrangel]] from [[Crimea]]]] '''White émigré''' is a [[politics|political]] [[term]] used to describe [[Russia]]n people who left Russia because of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]] or [[Russian Civil War|Civil War]]. The term is used in [[France]], the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. Sometimes the term is used to describe everyone who left the [[country]] because of changes in the [[government]]. == History == The words ''White émigré'' had a very [[negative]] meaning in the [[USSR|Soviet Union]] between 1920 and 1980. After 1980, those people who left during that time are called '''first wave émigrés'''. Many White [[Emigration|émigrés]] thought the [[White movement]] was something good. Some of them, the [[Mensheviks]] and [[Socialist-Revolutionaries]], did not like the [[Bolshevik]]s but did not like the White movement either. Others were just not interested in politics. Many of those who left are still part of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]. Most White émigrés left Russia between 1917 and 1920. Between 900,000 and two million people left. Many different [[social class|classes]] of people left. These included [[military]] [[soldier]]s and [[officer]]s, [[Cossack]]s, [[intellectual]]s, [[business]]men and [[land]]owners. [[Official]]s of the [[Russian Imperial Government]] and anti-Bolshevik governments of the Russian Civil War also left. ==Distribution== [[Image:Eglise notre dame de l assomption 7.jpg|thumb|193x193px|[[Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery]] near [[Paris]], a necropolis of White Russians]]Many émigrés left Southern [[Russia]] and [[Ukraine]] and went to [[Turkey]]. They then moved to eastern [[Europe]]an [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] countries, for example the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Czechoslo