I've been very interested in the White movement in the Russian Civil War lately. Are there any good estimates as to how many White emigres there were in total?

by blue9254
CaptainPyjamaShark

The online, International Encyclopedia of the First World War places the numbers at around 1 to 1.3 million Russian émigrés scattered around the world by 1921, when the Civil War was all over but the crying. That figure appears reasonable to me, I have seen up to 2 million. It is exceptionally different to get a precise number, as Russians fled to many different places and not all at the same time. Paris and Harbin, in China, were the two great clusters of post-war White Russian life.

You might be interested in checking out Richard Pipes' Russia under the Bolshevik Regime - it has quite a good section on the Russian Civil War and he may cover this in more detail, but I forget the book on my last move so I'm kicking myself that I can't answer your question more fully.