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 ...

Nearly a quarter of the one million Kazakhs conscripted into the Red Army during the 'Great Patriotic War,' the Russian term ...

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

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 German military could expect no mercy after the horrific cruelty they had inflicted on Soviet soldiers and civilians. But the Red Army were equally ruthless in their treatment of German women ...

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 ...