Trotsky builds the Red Army
1918 · Event
Named People's Commissar for War, Trotsky turns a militia of volunteers into a five-million-man conscript army — re-hiring 50,000 ex-Tsarist officers with commissars at their elbows and their families as hostages, and commanding from an armoured train that logs 100,000 miles of front.
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