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.

The dress became our uniform. And we became an army,” says Elisabeth Moss, as leader of the revolution, in the new footage. Praise be, the red-cloaked army will be coming for Gilead on April 8.