When Lenin's Bolsheviks — the Russian Communist party that had long been plotting revolution — suddenly took over, its enemies were legion. Leon Trotsky set about training a Red army to defend ...

In 1918, as World War I drew to a close, Allied forces intervened in the ill-fated struggle to put down the Bolshevik insurgents in the Russian Revolution. The prospect of an armistice with ...

Red Easter felt unnatural and contrived, and by the late 1930s, the fabricated holiday faded on its own. To keep people from turning toward the Church, the Bolsheviks decided to hit them in the ...

Trotsky became Commissar for War in the Bolshevik government in March 1918. A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and from the remnants of the ...

Red Flag hears testimony of members of the Red ... and without fail to bring up his son a Bolshevik. That's the kind of faith he had. A Bolshevik to the end." But it was not just possible ...

The large population of the major cities was a key resource for the Bolsheviks. The cities provided fresh recruitment for the Red Army. Much of Russia's industry and raw materials was located in ...