The Red Army during the Russian Civil War
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2024
- The Red Army was founded by Leon Trotsky in 1918 during the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution (part of the Russian Revolution) in 1917. At the time, the Bolshevik government faced opposition from several groups, including the Whites, who were composed of various anti-Bolshevik forces. The Red Army was created to defend the Bolshevik government and ensure its survival.
Under Trotsky's leadership, the Red Army grew in size and strength, eventually playing a crucial role in the Bolshevik victory in the civil war. The Red Army was known for its discipline, organization, and revolutionary fervor. It was also characterized by its willingness to use brutal tactics to defeat its enemies.
After the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, the Red Army became the basis for the Soviet Union's military establishment. Trotsky served as the People's Commissar for War, overseeing the development of the Red Army and its integration into the Soviet state.
History Hustle presents: The Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
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- Russia in Flames. War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 (Laura Engelstein).
- A People's Tragedy. A History of the Russian Revolution (Orlando Figes).
- The Red Army 1922-41. From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' (Philip Jowett).
- The Russian Civil War (1) The Red Army [Men-at-Arms 293] (Mikhail Khvostov).
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@@beepboop204 Can you make full video on Don Cossack Host and other breakaway states during the Russian Civil War
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@@thomaswatson1739 Hope to do that one day.
@@HistoryHustle Another Russian Civil war break away country was Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus. It was destroyed in 1922
11:40 Russian Empire bought Arisaka rifles from Japan in WW1, there were also huge stocks of captured Arisakas from Russo-Japan war. Many of these rifles ended up in Finnish civil war, only god knows how.
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Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing this.
@@Yoloswaggkid Käärijä and eurovisions etc are gay degeneracy bs
Foreign rifles were given to non Russians
The Baltic states got American rifles
I love your use of old photographs and film. Very informative Stefan
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Excellent video as always Stefan. Cheers from Tennessee
Many thanks!
Always so interesting and informative, thank you!
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Thank you Stefan for keeping us informed ❤👍
Many thanks as always Jesse.
Great presentation (as always)!
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Informative historical coverages about Red Army from its organization as red Guard to 1930 ... Besides, an informative introduction .. explained that its political backgrounds were important to understand , and why (Chika) as the background of KGB acted so brutality with suspicious cases...(Sir Stefan) You are a remarkable history teacher, thank you...good luck with the history of the Hustle channel, and you
Appreciate your enthusiasm a lot, many thanks!
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The thing I find fascinating about Trotsky was the fact he didn't have a conventional military background, if he had one at all. He was a revolutionary to be sure, but he also worked as a war correspondent reporting on the Balkan War with Turkey which he keenly observed. He also appeared to make a study of war which many Bolsheviks apparently did.
True. That did strike me as well. Guess he was a natural talent in this.
I read it in some where that he was more like motivator or cheer leader rather than the one who is actually leading the army.
@@ironheart5830 I can believe that, for most of these revolutionaries most of their military understanding came from whatever they could pick up in the libraries. I will recall a statement from Trotsky when it came to war. "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
@@schizoidboy Most of the field army was lead by former Tsarist officers that was taken hostages.
@@ironheart5830 Indeed a lot of the officers who would later have major roles in the Soviet Army during WWII started in the Tsarist Army. They certainly needed them because it was recognized they had the technical skills the Communists didn't.
Awesome history content, love all the swag you have too!
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No Trotsky no October revolution victory, and no Trotsky no Red Army victory in the civil war. Not sure whether the USSR would have become much stronger if only he became the leader after Lenin died.
We can only speculate...
@@fortunatomartino9797 капитализм убивает больше зай
@@fortunatomartino9797 in the same period capitalism killed way more people.
Unfortunately Trotsky was Jewish so he never stood a chance. Notwithstanding Lenin opposition to antisemitism and every nationalism, when the bolsheviks consolidated power the influx of many less educated members into the party brought with it a lot of old prejudices. Stalin was able to tap into those, for example the hate of many peasants for the church in little and middle sized cities, antisemitism.
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Reminder that ‘Jukums Vācietis, formerly a colonel in the Latvian Rifles became the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army’.
Thanks for sharing.
Very, very good and interesting!
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amazing video and i like the uniform. i wish my history professors at school where as knowledgable and as passionate with teaching as you are
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Very interesting
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Love the costumes dude!
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Someone probably already informed you, but these Arisaka rifles were most likely part of Japanese military aid to Russian Empire during WW1.
By middle 1915 Russian Imperial Army faced massive shortage of everything, but the most painfully lack of rifles and amminition. Weapon factories within Russia were already increased production by 211% and sacrificed quality over quantity, yet were unable to made more than they possibly could.
That lead to use of hunting shotguns and axes on second and third defence lines on some sectors of Eastern Front.
So, because Japan and Russia were allis at the time, Russian government required help from anyone and promissed to pay in gold. And Japan (plus the US) supplied Russia between 1916 to 1917 with large quantity of rifles and cartridges for them. Funny enough, among these rifles were American-made copies of Mosin-Nagant rifles.
Thanks for sharing.
Thankyou. A good introduction to the origins of the Red Army and it's many contradictions.
Thank you for watching.
Great info Stephan, german troops in norway. How cushy was it. How were you chosen for this. Russian front or Norway hmmm.?
Norway? Did I say that in this video?
@@HistoryHustle No sir you did not, but it would make a good episode. You pick topics others do not cover, which is why I watch. Regards
@@HistoryHustle Guess I am making a suggestion.
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Hey dude what's that on your head ?!?
Period correct head gear...I need one for next winter😂
That is Budenovka
@@MrSlugny That's the worry ...you reckon that next winter is going to be the harsh one ?
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Winchester M1895s were ordered by Carist gov in 1915/16 from the US an delivered soon after in some quantity. Although the Russians liked the rifle it was also the only model they could get on short notice - presumably because no other Allied power wanted lever actions. The same was with Arisakas, only these were trickling in later and by 1917 orders were re directed to UK - equiping the Navy that transfered its SMLEs to the Army. In both cases it was due tu severe lack of basic infantry eqp not only in Russia...
Thanks for sharing this.
@@HistoryHustle my leasure. Keep up the good work professor...👍
They got lever actions as they came late to the game to order new bolt actions in America. Machines were at a premium, and setting up a new lines on short order damn near impossible.
So they ordered rifles from preexisting lines to speed up procurement. Then when Mosin lines came online. The Revolution had already taken place.
So they were sold in America after being converted to 30-06.
Then I guess the wikipedia article is based on similar sources. I didn't use the wikipedia article, but the sources below the video.
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Very interesting that the Soviet Red Guards were founded upon the same lines as the American militia units prescribed under the US Constitution of the 2nd Amendment? Very strange indeed?
You have a source on that. Feel free to share.
Both didn’t trust a standing army
Thanks for detailing that iconic cap. I’ve always had a fetish for the Red Army’s 🪖 of the 1930s, when they continued to sport French Adrians and, then, my beloved SS-h36,….
Thanks for your reply.
Hi there! I am part of a Dutch reenactment group reenacting the second world war early and late war if you ever want to have good pictures for your video's I can help you with that or need help with the right attire :) it's a bit unrelated to this video!
We also use commands in Russian and the right formations etc!
Cool!
Good that you speak for Trotsky after all, he can't ice pick for himself.
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Intresting and informative again 👍
Getting ripped of by Lenin.. Capitalism at work there LOL
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Mostly correct, but still a few clarifications can be made.
During the First World War of 1914-1917, Russia purchased from Japan about 820 thousand Japanese Arisaka rifles and almost 800 million cartridges for them, in 1993 in Ukraine these Arisaka rifles from a warehouse in the Shepetovka region were sent for remelting.
Before the revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks wanted to replace the professional army with a workers' militia, but the events of late 1917 and early 1918 completely changed the views of the Bolsheviks on the army.
In the photo Parade of the Red Army troops in Kharkov, 1920. If you look at the photo in full, you can see that the Red Army men are shod in bast shoes, and this is extreme poverty.
From November 24, 1920, Soviet border guards were part of the Special Department of the Cheka, from June 24, 1918 to November 24, 1920, the Border Guard was under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Trade and Industry.
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The arguments about a citizens militia versus a proper army were more Trosky's ideas against Bukharin and others. A lot of bolsheviks like bukharin would have kept workers militias instead of a proper army and not taken in tsarist officers, and probably lost the war as a result. Stalin was one of those who massively criticised Trotsky for this stuff interestingly and was proven to be full of crap. Stalin also proved his military incompetence in the red armies invasion of Poland.
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Only a few quotes from the creators of the Red Army, nothing can replace them.
Lenin on the beginning of the construction of the Red Army at the beginning of 1918: this question “was completely new, it was not even theoretically posed at all ... We went from experience to experience, we tried to create a volunteer army, groping, groping, trying which way, under a given situation, could problem to be solved"
The views of Lenin, and consequently of his supporters, about the revolutionary army in 1905: it should be the military force of the revolutionary people (but not the people in general), which consists of: 1) the armed proletariat and the peasantry; 2) organized forward detachments and fighting squads from representatives of the workers and the revolutionary peasantry; 3) citizens who are ready to go over to the side of the people from parts of the old army and navy. “Taken together, it makes up a revolutionary army”
Initially, very naive ideas about the organization of the army mechanism dominated among the Bolshevik leadership. It was believed that it was enough to throw a revolutionary cry for the industrial proletariat - the flower of the working class - to join the ranks of the revolutionary troops in orderly ranks. We still have to select the best, for which we enlist the recommendation of our comrades ... It was in this way that the Red Guard detachments were built, which played a decisive role in the October events in Petrograd and Moscow, and in the next few months, which received the name "triumphal march of Soviet power."
Lenin wrote about the critical period from February 18 to 24, 1918: “The week of the military offensive of imperialist Germany against the Soviet Socialist Republic was a bitter, offensive, difficult, but necessary, useful, beneficial lesson ... On the one hand, the unrestrained revelry of the “resolutive” revolutionary phrase ... On the other hand, painfully shameful reports about the refusal of the regiments to maintain positions, even to defend the Narva line ... Not to mention the flight, chaos, handlessness, helplessness, slovenliness.
From the Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People on January 3 (16), 1918, this was included in the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918: “
5) In the interests of ensuring full power for
the working masses and the elimination of every possibility
restoration of the power of the exploiters, armaments are decreed
working people, the formation of the socialist Red Army of workers and
peasants and the complete disarmament of the propertied classes.
Bukharin about the army in the ABC of Communism: “When the proletariat in a number of countries defeats the bourgeoisie and destroys classes, then it will be possible to carry out general armament of the people. Then all the working people will be armed, because in a victorious socialist society everyone will be working people. Perhaps, then there will be the destruction of all and every barracks. Perhaps there will also be an elected command, which in the era of an aggravated civil war cannot be useful to the proletarian army, with some happy exceptions.
“Countries that have defeated their bourgeoisie and turned them into workers will either have to wage war, or be ready for war against the bourgeoisie of those states where the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been proclaimed, or to help with an armed hand the proletariat of countries where its dictatorship has been proclaimed, but the struggle against the bourgeoisie not yet completed."
“The higher the level of consciousness in the Red Army becomes, the more red soldiers begin to understand that they are ultimately commanded by the entire class of working people through their state and its military command. Discipline in the Red Army is thus the subordination of the minority (soldiers) to the interests of the working majority. Behind every reasonable order of the command stands not the commander and his arbitrariness, not the bourgeois minority and its predatory interests, but the entire workers' and peasants' republic. That is why in the Red Army the political education of soldiers, propaganda and agitation are of absolutely exceptional importance.
@@user-vv9sl9ln2e But Trotsky was the founder the red army. Even Lenin took 2nd place to him in military matters and deferred to his strategic decisions during the civil war.
At the end of the American revolution the army was to be militia
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It would be better to say that Trotsky was one of the founders of the Red Army, he made a great contribution to this cause, but still, the Red Army was created by millions, and the contribution of many of them is no less than that of Trotsky.
Decree of the People's Commissars of the RSFSR "On the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", signed on January 15 (28), 1918. And Trotsky only received the post of People's Commissar for Military Affairs on March 14, March 28 - Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, in April - People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, and September 6 - Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the RSFSR.
Trotsky also made very big mistakes, for example, on the issue of the Brest-Litovsk peace, and his order to disarm the Czechoslovak corps - this posturing and recklessness, contributed to the armed uprising of this corps and thereby the beginning of a big civil war.
Lenin, of course, was a clear leader both in terms of political weight and position, but Lenin listened to many and consulted with many, and with Trotsky too.
13:10. The red star was actually the symbol of Mars, the god of war.
Didn't know.
Leather coat was part of the red army uniform which is very interesting .
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“I got ripped off by Lenin.” 🤣🤣🤣
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History Hustle can now say with past millions, "I got ripped off by Lenin!" 😂
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Were they trained by the ding dong at 5:57? Would that Maxim machine gun be the longest serving machine gun in the world? I know there are some German MG42s out there, but that isn't nearly as old as the maxim. Anyway, Lenin did not rip you off. He simply redistributed wealth. Take care.
Great comments! I do not know if the longest serving machine gun in the world would be the Maxim (probably) or Lewis (maybe because it is still found in Africa & South America).
@@Gronk79 I did a google search and found the Lewis was made in 1911, so just about a year younger. Certainly, they would be the two longest serving machine guns in history, as they are both still in use.
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Very capitalist of Lenin to charge you for the picture lol
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. . .especially when he looked much more like Bukharin than Lenin
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Classic.
Revolution in Russia were not Russian. Lenin band came on a sealed train from Switzerland through Germany and Sweden. Bronstein (Trocki) band came from New York. One have to remember where the money came from. Anyway, that was quiet an operation.
Trotsky, en route to Russia from New York City, was detoured up to Nova Scotia Canada. There he was detained by Canadian authorities who knew of his intention to take Russia out of World War I (thus freeing up German troops to go to the Western front and kill Canadians). It took the money and political influence of the Rockefeller family to get Trotsky released.
The German High Command transferred the Bolsheviks from Switzerland.
They hoped Lenin would remove Russia from WW1 (which he did)
I get this comment a lot. Either by anti-semites or by people who just picked up the wrong information. I quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy):
"It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks."
He also wrote:
"Not many Jews were Bolsheviks, but many of the leading Bolsheviks were Jews. To large numbers of ordinary Russians, whose world had been turned upside-down, it thus appeared that their country's ruin was somehow connected with the sudden appearance of the Jews in places and positions of authority formerly reserved for the non-Jews. It was a short step from this to conclude that the Jews were plotting to bring about Russia's ruin. The result was mass Judeophobia."
@@HistoryHustle I've got nothing against Jews, my Friend. Obviously you have a problem with that. For me it's just coincidence I don't care if someone is Jew or whoever. He was evil.
if only they realized they were fighting on the wrong side it wasn't until ww2 they realized this
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History Hustle being hustled by a grifting Lenin, this is priceless 😂👋👋👋
They times we could travel to Russia with no problems. Wish I could be ripped off by Lenin once more.
@@HistoryHustle I know that’s all I can think of now . At least you went when you did 🌞
I wonder if Lenin impersonators are as ubiquitous in Russia as are Elvis impersonators in the U.S.A.? I know people who claim to have been married
(or robbed) by Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas.
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These imitators are very rare, literally a few people, and they do it only for the sake of money, but their business is not going well and they will soon disappear. For contemporary Leninists and for many others, these imitators are very unsavory.
Watch michael palins travel series when he went to russia just before the fall of the USSR (1991) he goes around with a lenin impersonator who people throw abuse at
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Judeo-Bolshevism!!! Read John Beaty book The Iron Curtain Over America!
I quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy):
"It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks."
He also wrote:
"Not many Jews were Bolsheviks, but many of the leading Bolsheviks were Jews. To large numbers of ordinary Russians, whose world had been turned upside-down, it thus appeared that their country's ruin was somehow connected with the sudden appearance of the Jews in places and positions of authority formerly reserved for the non-Jews. It was a short step from this to conclude that the Jews were plotting to bring about Russia's ruin. The result was mass Judeophobia."
In the encyclopedia it says that Trotskys real name was Lev Bronstein.
@@HistoryHustle You can find good and bad in every group and also false religions has contributed to wars and conflicts throughout the years.
@History Hustle my replies keep disappearing!! Check the Jewish Encyclopedia and Jewish articles of that era! Also the slur of "antisemitism" was also a Soviet tactic....as most were Jews! Antisemitism was even a crime in the early Bolshevik era! All 19th 20th Century Zionists were also Communists, starting with the man behind Engels, Moses Hess!
Can't help YT deletes your comments.
Ripped off by Lenin! 😂🤣
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Would love to give you the 🥇, but the comment needs to have a meaning and I can’t say what 'Ww' means...
Unfortunately, for a history teacher, you place little value on the backstory of the topics you discuss. Could it be due to your personal preferences?
What do I mean by that: you don't mention a word about the destructive activities of the Bolshevik commissars who infiltrated the tsarist armies as moles during the First World War in order to destroy the tsarist regime.
The same officers who were betrayed by the Bolsheviks and whose authority was undermined, which led to many deaths among the Tsarist troops (the Bolsheviks probably didn't care about this), were then forced into the Reds through coercion and blackmail by Leo Bronstein, called Trotsky army pressed.
They also mention the Cheka, but not their terror, the oppression, the killings and other crimes and offenses against their own people. The red terror, i.e. the terror perpetrated by Trotsky and the Red Army, is not really dealt with by them. Although they made their own video about the "white terror", a video about the "red terror" is still pending.
Made videos on both Red and White Terror. See sources below my videos.
@@HistoryHustle Thank you for your quick reply to my comment. Thanks for pointing out the additional videos, I look forward to watching them as soon as possible.
Did you also make a video about the Bolsheviki and their (questionable) goals and methods during the First World War or the beginning of the Bolsheviki until the Russian revolutions (March and October)?
Lenin was wise to surrender to Germany, and focus on the Whites instead. Trotsky would have tried to fight both at once, and he would have lost...
He was pragmatic yes.
Хм…. А где подробности про Ленина приносившего в жертву младенцев ? А где миф про продразверстки ? Человек из Европы объективнее наших либералов ?
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@@HistoryHustle Nothing important. It's just that if one of our liberals had said the same thing, he would certainly have told about how terrible Lenin was and about some prototype of detachments shooting Red Guards in the back.
Quite Interesting Subject.."in the Annals.." of Russian military history.."Instructor"!!