Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore ... A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and from the remnants of the old Tsarist army.

But history has a habit of repeating itself, and there is an "underappreciated comparison" between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Red Army's invasion of Poland in 1920 under Lenin ...

But when the official party arrived, the crowd’s eyes turned from Lenin’s benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped ... that the Soviet Army was able to ...