 Zionist youth groups were formed across the country, Zionists held celebratory rallies in response to the Balfour declaration, and Zionists formed Jewish self-defense battalions.However, only a few months after its foundation, the provisional government collapsed, and in the ensuing anarchy, violent anti-Semitism returned to Russia, with sporadic pogroms.Denikin's White Army was a bastion of anti-Semitism, using "Strike at the Jews and save Russia!"