Red Guards largely comprised students during China's Cultural Revolution.

Red Guard(s) or Redguards may also refer to:

Communist and socialist groups

  • Worker-Peasant Red Guards, militia in North Korea
  • Red Guards (Russia), during the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War
  • Red Guards (Finland), during the Finnish Civil War
  • Red Guard Party, a militant Chinese-American civil rights group closely modeled after the Black Panthers
  • Red Guards (Bavaria), in the Bavarian Soviet Republic
  • Red Guards (Hungary), in the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1918–1919)
  • Red Guards (Italy), during the Biennio Rosso
  • Young Red Guards Cadet Corps, a paramilitary unit in North Korea
  • Red Guards (USA), American Marxist–Leninist–Maoist collectives
  • Red Guards (Ceylon), military wing of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

Other groups

  • Red Guard of Senegal, a gendarmerie in charge of presidential security

Fictional uses

  • Red Guards (Emperor's Royal Guard), fictional elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe
  • The Red Guard (novel), a 1967 novel in the Killmaster series of spy novels
  • Redguards, a fantasy race of The Elder Scrolls universe
  • The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, a 1998 computer game based on The Elder Scrolls universe

See also

  • Red Army (disambiguation)
  • Red Guardian, fictional character
  • Red Scare
  • Red Squad