Leon Trotsky was a pivotal figure in the 1905 and ... where he rebuilt the Red Army to win the Russian Civil War. However, after Lenin’s death, he was politically outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin ...

Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar ... In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 such officers served for the Soviet cause. While they mostly remained loyal to ...

Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky ... of War. He created the Red Army and he defeated the forces of the counter-revolution in Russia's three year Civil War.

Trotsky was one of the titans of the political ... If it is true that the Red Army would not have been able to win the civil war without military commissars, it is also true that it could not ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...

The Bolsheviks were extremely fortunate in the quality of their leadership, particularly in Lenin and Trotsky. Throughout the Civil War, Lenin provided the energy and drive needed to inspire ...