For all his show of contempt for the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has one great fear. He is afraid of Nato. The military might of the Western transatlantic alliance far outguns anything ...

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 ...

An organizational guide was submitted. On October 4, 1919, a draft titled "Structure and Guidelines of the Red Army During Illegality," confiscated in Upper Silesia in September 1919, was received ...