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.

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 ...

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 ...

Text by the Swedish Council Communist Förbundet Arbetarmakt on the question of party and revolutionary organization.

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 ...

Central to a scientific, that is a Marxist, revolutionary perspective is Leon Trotsky’s Theory of ... to the point of bloody civil war at every point.” [2] As the revolutionary tide ebbed ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...

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 ...