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 ...

Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that its units had started getting new all-season basic uniform ... the army press service said Belarusian military says operation to deploy Russian tactical ...

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.