The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...

To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...

In the 1980s (Afghan years 1359-68), the Soviet Red Army and its allied Afghan army committed massive war crimes and crimes against humanity, intentionally targeting civilians and civilian areas ...

On February 25, 1921, after days of fierce battles around the capital, the Russian Red Army captured Tbilisi, sealing the fate of Georgia’s short-lived independence. The invasion, which began on the ...

The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the ... A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and from the remnants of the old Tsarist army.

3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front." It bears a strong resemblance to the Soviet red flag. Moscow's T-80BV and BTR-82A tanks went to assault the positions of the 47th separate mechanized ...

This attempt, known as the Prague Spring, lasted for four months until it was crushed by the Soviet Red Army Although Dubček was a committed communist, he believed that communism did not have to ...