Red Army
Bolshevik military force
The Red Army was the military force of the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1946, named for the red flag of communism.
The term persists in historical discussions of World War II's Eastern Front, where the Red Army bore the brunt of fighting against Nazi Germany: The Red Army captured Berlin in 1945.
Sometimes used loosely for any Soviet or Russian military force.
Lenin's revolutionary party
- LeninSoviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
Kremlin · USSR · Pravda · commissar · NKVD · cavalry · collectivization · purges
Renamed Soviet industrial city
- Operation BarbarossaNazi Soviet invasion
- T-34Soviet medium tank
- Great Patriotic WarSoviet term for WWII
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
Leningrad · partisans · Wehrmacht · siege · liberation · Winter War
State-led revolutionary socialism
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- workersPeople doing jobs
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
comrade · socialism · internationalism · anti-fascism · liberation · solidarity · vanguard
Divider of forged metal
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Warsaw PactSoviet-led military alliance
- arms raceEscalating weapons accumulation between nations
Berlin Wall · Soviet occupation · Prague Spring · Afghanistan · proxy wars · Checkpoint Charlie · tank divisions · nuclear deterrence
Ground combat troops
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- regimentsMilitary units under colonels
conscription · fronts · marshals · generals · commissars · doctrine · combined arms · echelon
Bolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
- LeninSoviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
October Revolution · Kremlin · USSR · Pravda · commissar · NKVD · cavalry · collectivization · purges · show trials
Stalingrad
Renamed Soviet industrial city
- Operation BarbarossaNazi Soviet invasion
- T-34Soviet medium tank
- Great Patriotic WarSoviet term for WWII
Eastern Front · Leningrad · partisans · Wehrmacht · siege · liberation · Winter War
Marxism-Leninism
State-led revolutionary socialism
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- workersPeople doing jobs
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
revolution · comrade · socialism · internationalism · anti-fascism · liberation · solidarity · vanguard
iron curtain
Divider of forged metal
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Warsaw PactSoviet-led military alliance
arms race · Berlin Wall · Soviet occupation · Prague Spring · Afghanistan · proxy wars · Checkpoint Charlie · tank divisions · nuclear deterrence · East Germany
infantry
Ground combat troops
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
regiments · conscription · fronts · marshals · generals · commissars · doctrine · combined arms · echelon · reserves
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- Soviet UnionKremlin, Lenin, Stalin, KGB, Sputnik
- Cold War USSRKhrushchev, Brezhnev, Politburo, KGB, Kremlin
- European MilitaryBundeswehr, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, German Navy, Luftwaffe
- Interwar InstitutionsLeague of Nations, Comintern, Nazi Party, Weimar Republic, Bauhaus
- RevolutionsFrench Revolution, Russian Revolution, American Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Mexican Revolution
Red ArmyNATO forces
Western defense alliance military
United States Army · US military · U.S. military · British Army · Bundeswehr
red, army, reddish, redness, redden, armies, reddened, reddening, reddens