leon trotsky led the red army and made it an effective fighting force.
leon trotsky led the red army and made it an effective fighting force.
who led the red army and made it an effective fighting force?
leon trotsky
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from mid-1917 onwards, the russian army, the successor-organisation of the old imperial russian army, started to disintegrate; the bolsheviks used the volunteer-based red guards as their main military force, augmented by an armed military component of the cheka (the bolshevik state-security apparatus). in january 1918, after significant bolshevik reverses in combat, the future people's commissar for military and naval affairs, leon trotsky headed the reorganization of the red guards into a "workers' and peasants' red army" in order to create a more effective fighting force. the bolsheviks appointed political commissars to each unit of the red army to maintain morale and to ensure loyalty.
russian civil war