Red Guards

Red Guards may refer to:

Communist groups

• Red Guards (Finland), during the Finnish Civil War
• Red Guards (Russia), during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War
• Red Guards (Bavaria), in the Bavarian Soviet Republic
• Red Guards (Hungary), in the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1918-1919)
• Red Guards (China), composed largely of students during the Cultural Revolution
• Red Guard Party (United States), a militant Chinese-American civil rights grouped closely modeled after the Black Panthers

Other Groups

• The Red Guard of Senegal
• The Krathin Daeng or Red Gaurs, death squads active in Thailand in the 1970s, which have been mistakenly referred to as "Red Guards"

Fictional uses

• Emperor's Royal Guard, fictional elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe, also sometimes referred as "Red Guards"
• Redguard, fictional race in the popular Elder Scrolls game series