Leon Trotsky was a pivotal figure in the 1905 ... where he rebuilt the Red Army to win the Russian Civil War. However, after Lenin’s death, he was politically outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin ...

Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

He was always on the move Leon Trotsky was born Lev Bronstein in ... He founded the Red Army When the Russian Civil War broke out between the Bolsheviks and the pro-monarchist “white” forces ...

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 ...

Reid writes about the ill-fated intervention of Western countries, primarily France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in Russia ... sides in the war confiscated the peasants’ livestock and ...

The deadliest war in all ... irony that this man, Leon Trotsky, had been safely locked away in Nova Scotia only a few months before. In the spring of 1917, Trotsky was a Russian exile living ...

Lev Bronshtein, whom history and the world would know as Leon Trotsky, is at the center ... he created and ran the Red Army during the Russian Civil War that followed the Bolshevik Revolution.

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 ...