In Moscow, some of the best architecture may lie many metres underground. With its vaulted ceilings, marble floors and tiled ...

Following Lenin’s orders, the Bolsheviks ... The military crackdown was especially strict. If a Red Army soldier entered a church during Holy Week to light a candle, it sparked scandal.

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.

This overwhelming victory of the Red Army over the Nazis would not have existed, of course, without the 1917 Revolution. So say the characters in the ...

By the end of the war, the Red Army would destroy or defeat over 600 German divisions on the Eastern Front, eliminating three quarters of all German military equipment. It would kill some three ...

With its vaulted ceilings, marble floors and tiled mosaics of Vladimir Lenin and the Red Army, the Moscow metro is a crown jewel of the Russian capital. In the decades since Muscovites boarded the ...