Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian ... year Civil War. A brilliant orator and military strategist, as well as an outstanding literary critic, Trotsky ...

asserted today at the mass trial of 21 Bolshevik leaders for treason that Great Britain accepted him as Russian ambassador only after learning that he was associated with Leon Trotsky. Asserting ...

The Russian imperial army and ... reliable officers' corps, leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army. In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 such officers served ...

The streaming company Netflix has bought the rights to the Russian series Trotsky, a representative ... the Russian civil war, and so on. The series earned three TEFI awards from the Russian ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government ... particularly in Lenin and Trotsky. Throughout the Civil War, Lenin provided the energy and drive needed to inspire success ...

Lenin returned to Russia in April ... they instigated a civil war with the aim of destroying the revolutionary regime. The Red Army was formed, under the leadership of Trotsky, to defend the ...

The voice that speaks in this book is the voice of Leon Trotsky ... in the world, the Russian Revolution was an incident, an interruption of the War. To Minister Trotsky it was the other way ...

However, as the Civil War developed ... Most of Russia's railways were in this area. This made communication between the various battlefronts much easier. Trotsky was able to move troops and ...