Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia's role in World War One. However he could not avoid a civil war ... Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and ...

On April 22 the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour. This was the beginning of the Red ... army. In the years of the ...

Above all, these nineteen-year-olds have been brought up in a revolution which has deliberately applied to peacetime pursuits a war ... names Red Army and Red Fleet were replaced by Soviet Army ...

During the Russian Civil War, the Soviets and anti-Bolsheviks ... peasants, and Red Army soldiers, and a horde of anti-Soviet enemies caricatured as fat capitalists, generals, and Kuban Cossacks ...

However, as the Civil War developed, the White Armies began ... The cities provided fresh recruitment for the Red Army. Much of Russia's industry and raw materials was located in this area.

Winning the biggest tank battle in history - against Nazi Germany at Kursk in 1943 - remains a great source of pride for Russians. So it is not surprising that Russian officials have lashed out at ...

From 1944 to 1949, tens of thousands of Greek soldiers and guerrillas fought and slaughtered each other and thousands of innocents in a civil war of unrelenting and shocking savagery. In the wake of ...

Director Gabe Polsky's acclaimed Red Army documentary is loaded with cool archival Soviet footage ... the geopolitical backdrop of the Cold War and digs deeply into the Russian soul.

Rezantsev was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army ... the war would be over within hours, just four days after it began. Ukrainian media reported on Friday that the general was killed ...