The guards had been notified of Langer's arrival ... often with a sentence or paragraph underlined by Trotsky in red, or perhaps a few words in Russian written in the margin.

This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924. Red Army soldiers man the ...

A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and from the remnants of the old Tsarist army. Appointing ex-Tsarist officers was questioned, but Trotsky ...

[12] But now Medvedev asserts: “To over-emphasize Trotsky by name as the ‘commander-in-chief’ of the Red Army was primarily to the advantage of the White-Guard generals.” [13] In Let ...

Trotsky, leader of the Bolshevik Red Army, believed that "war is the locomotive ... Why did his Republican Guard survive? Was the continuation of Hussein's Iraqi regime necessary for stability ...

Trotsky never left his small compound in the Mexican capital where he went into exile, protected by a handful of armed guards. But Mercader gained entry to the revolutionary's small entourage as the ...