At its peak, in 1919, the White Army in Russia’s Civil War numbered close to a million men. And then — they vanished. As if they had never existed. After the American Civil War, Confederate veterans remained part of public life. There were memorial societies, women tending graves, books and songs, rituals of remembrance. A defeated side, but not an erased one. In the Soviet Union, no one ever said that their grandfather or grandmother had served in the White Army. So where did all those people g