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- noun Plural form of
White Russian .
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Great and the White Russians had to contend with a soil much less productive, with swamps which had to be drained, with thick forests which had to be cleared, with wild beasts which had to be destroyed or guarded against, and with frost and snow that left scarcely four months in the year for labour in the field.
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Great, Little, and White Russians -- Cossacks, freemen, and runaway serfs -- who came individually or in small groups from all corners of Russia.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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