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 ...

The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until 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.

After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.