In his "History of the Russian Revolution" he always speaks of himself in the third person. "The then head of the Red Army did thus and so," he says ... herself a devoted Communist. But I could quote ...

Naval War College Review Vol. 27, No. 1, July-August 1974 ARMIES AND REVOLUTION: TROTSKY'S PRE-191... Leon Trotsky, more than any other man, was responsible for the successful blend öf peasant and ...

Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky ... He created the Red Army and he defeated the forces of the counter-revolution in Russia's three year Civil War. A brilliant orator ...

the Red Guards had to take by force only the Moscow Kremlin. [11] Thus, in order to belittle Trotsky’s role in the October Revolution, Medvedev does away with the insurrection in Petrograd.