Various groups that included army officers and nobles as well as peasants and people from the middle class. The Whites were plagued with disloyalty. Eventually gave in to the communists. Anti-communists, wanted a democracy instead of a communist government. Whites, were arrested, tried, and executed. Although the peasantry had become hostile to the Communists, they supported them, fearing that a victory by the Whites would result in a return to the monarchy.