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 ...
who was studying for her PhD when she became an early recruit to the American Red Cross. She was the first black woman to travel to Alaska with the organisation, where the Army Corps of Engineers ...
The small Polish army ... cavalry divisions. They put up plucky resistance for three weeks but are finally defeated by Germany's powerful army. On 17 September, Stalin sends the Red Army to ...
A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and from the remnants of the old Tsarist army. Appointing ex-Tsarist officers was questioned, but Trotsky ...