The Russian army's numbers keep going down but it is still a force the world has to reckon with. ....in the days of the Civil War, in 1918-20 Reds often apprehended their Tsarist White enemies by ...

However, as the Civil War developed ... involvement in Russia By the end of 1919 most foreign troops had left Russia. But the Reds used the idea of foreign support for the White armies as propaganda.

The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921. During this time, the Bolsheviks faced massive opposition to their rule in the form of the White Armies ... the Red Army out of ...