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 ...
Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror ...
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 ...
U.S. awards were awarded to not only major Soviet military leaders and famous ace pilots, but also to ordinary privates, ...
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.