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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On November 19, 1942, the Soviet Red Army began a counteroffensive attack to move the Germans out of Stalingrad in a major turning point of World ...

The chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, responding to the president of the German Bundestag Julia Kleckner, who ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument commemorating the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany was taken down Thursday in Latvia ...

Shchors was a Ukrainian communist who fought with the Soviet army against Ukrainian independence following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Ukraine has accelerated efforts to erase the vestiges of ...

This evolution of the Red Army began as early as December 1939 and continued steadily, partly because of and partly in spite of fresh reverses and losses, until now the Russian war machine is not only ...