When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they had almost no real military force capable of defending the new regime. Civil war was spreading, foreign armies were intervening, and the revolution was close to collapse.
This is the story of how Leon Trotsky transformed scattered militias into the Red Army and the brutal methods he used to hold the Soviet state together.
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