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 ...

3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front." It bears a strong resemblance to the Soviet red flag. Moscow's T-80BV and BTR-82A tanks went to assault the positions of the 47th separate mechanized ...

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.

In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Defense Forces defeated an armored convoy of the Russian army that attacked with red flags ...