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 ...

U.S. awards were awarded to not only major Soviet military leaders and famous ace pilots, but also to ordinary privates, ...

The Soviet Red Army squad dominated like no other hockey team before or since. Acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Gabe Polsky looks at how they became so brilliant and why it was so important in a ...

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.

The Soviet T-34 tank was vital in securing the Red Army's victory in WW2 The Russian government has warned Poland that it will face sanctions if it removes monuments glorifying the Soviet victory ...

So it is not surprising that Russian officials have lashed out at Western historians for questioning the Red Army's mastery of the battlefield. For decades Russians have seen no reason to doubt ...

Located in a wooded area near the village of Nagyvazsony in central Hungary, the base – nicknamed "Little Moscow" by locals – was a Soviet base abandoned in 1990. The Red Army may have kept a ...