This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924. Red Army soldiers man the ...

Trotsky, leader of the Bolshevik Red Army, believed that "war is the locomotive of history." Greek historian Thucydides believed that countries go to war out of "honor, fear, and interest.") ...

He created the Red Army and he defeated the forces of the counter ... as well as an outstanding literary critic, Trotsky was out-foxed and out-maneuvered by Joseph Stalin in the leadership ...

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 ...

Medvedev wrote in 1989: There is no question that Trotsky’s activity played a fundamental role in transforming the Red Army from a conglomerate of guerilla and semi-guerilla formations into a ...

(Staat, greif zu!) The International Committee of the Fourth International is the leadership of the world party of socialist revolution, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938.

The ice axe that was plunged into Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's skull during his gruesome murder in Mexico on August 20, 1940, is today among the prized exhibits at Washington's International ...

Trotsky was able to move troops and supplies ... The cities provided fresh recruitment for the Red Army. Much of Russia's industry and raw materials was located in this area.