After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. The first of 10,000 ...

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

World War II Looms... In 1937 a drastic purge crippled the Red Army, reducing its morale and efficiency just before the world war. In June, Marshall Tukhachevsky, first deputy commissar of war ...

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 ...