Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia's role in World War One. However he could not avoid a civil war. The Russian Civil ... created the Red Army out of the Red ...

The Russian ... Red Army faced the problem of creating a competent and reliable officers' corps, leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army. In the years of the Civil War ...

During the Russian Civil ... the Volunteer Army at the height of the civil war. A White Army knight, dressed in medieval Russian armor and mounted on a pale horse, battles a red dragon ...

Western forces joined the White Russians in their civil war against the ... of volunteer Red militias into a regular conscript army, and by the fall of 1920, the Whites were thoroughly defeated and ...

When the Bolsheviks toppled Tsar Nicholas II during the war, Obolensky fought the communist Red Army as a guerrilla. When it became clear the Bolsheviks would be victorious in the Russian Civil ...

Around 5,000 American soldiers were part of an allied expedition to intervene in the ongoing Russian civil war against the "Red ... Memorial Association) The Red army continued its push against ...

However, as the Civil War developed, the White Armies began to ... The cities provided fresh recruitment for the Red Army. Much of Russia's industry and raw materials was located in this area.