Red Army

Army of the Soviet Union. Formed in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, its first civilian leader was Leon Trotsky, who proved a brilliant strategist and administrator. Formed of workers and peasants, it initially lacked an officers' corps, and Trotsky was forced to mobilize officers of the former imperial army until a new, politically reliable corps could be trained. The Communist Party placed commissars in all army units to ensure political orthodoxy. Joseph Stalin purged the military leadership in 1937, leaving the army demoralized and unprepared for the German surprise attack in 1941. It recovered sufficiently by 1945 to have forces numbering more than 11 million, surpassed in strength only by the U.S. Army. In 1946 it was renamed the Soviet Army. In 1960 the commissars' duties were transferred to army officers. See also Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Red Army

(the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, RKKA), from 1918 until 1946 the official name for the ground troops and air force. Together with the navy it constituted the armed forces of the USSR.

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Glantz, a retired US Army officer and chief editor for The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, adds new depth to the historical record by providing new information on Operation Mars, the Donbas and Khar'kov offensives and the true size of Red Army fronts in the west and northwest.

After Stalingrad; the Red Army's winter offensive 1942-43 by Reference & Research Book News

Formed in 1970, the group amalgamated the armed wings of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Revolutionary Left Faction (RLF), two shards of the Japanese left.

How not to overthrow the capitalist state by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

12/19/2008 5:51:23 PM Christian Klar, a former member of the Red Army Faction, has been released from jail after spending 26 years in prison for his part in a wave of killings that shook Germany in the 1970s.

Germany frees '70s leftist fighter by Aljazeera.net

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