On July 17, while the world evaluated the U.S.-Russia Helsinki summit, Russia marked a historic anniversary: 100 years since Red Army guards executed Russia’s imperial family in the basement of ...

In 1814, after defeating Napoleon, Russian Emperor Alexander I solemnly marched through Paris surrounded by Russian Guards regiments. ... called the Red Guards and consisting mainly of workers.

Another Black Guard detachment was led by Mikhail Chernyak, later active in the Makhnovist counterintelligence. In the Vyborg district of Petrograd, anarchist workers at the Russian Renault factory ...

On this day in 1917, the Red Guards moved into the palace and arrested the government members. Russia, reluctantly, was at war – Germany had launched it against the country in August 1914.

Chinese soldiers were some of the most disciplined, resilient and cruel among those fighting in the Red Army in the Russian Civil War. They were practically never taken prisoner. “A Chinese ...

National 5; October Revolution - Causes, events, effects Russian Civil War - The Red Army. The period after the February Revolution which deposed the Tsar had seen little change, and in October ...