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The Red Army is also known as the Workers and Peasants Army. It had a great support of the peasants and was started as a combat arm of the Russian civil war.
The Bolshevik army was first called the Red Guard in the early days of the October Revolution. During the Russian Civil War, it became known as the Red Army.
That was the civil war in Russia, also known as the Russian Revolution. The communists of the (Bolsheviks) eventually overwhelmed the combined Royalists and nationalists of the White Army.
The Red Army
The Red Army, was started by Vladimir Lenin who wanted to conver the Russian government into Karl Marx's principles. It started as a communist militia, who overthrew the Russian monarchy and the Russian provisional government. Eventually becoming the Soviet Union's official military force.
The Russian Red Army
The Red Army was the nickname for the Soviet army. This term was coined in 1918( I think ) when the Communists (reds - thus called due to the major color of their flag) were fighting a civil war with the white Russian forces (those favoring the tsar/nobility leadership). Ultimately the Communists won the civil war and the entire Soviet army became known as the Red Army, later renamed the Soviet Army. It's an army of red Indians wearing red
Leon Trotsky commanded the Red Army.
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Soviets, Red Army, Commies