Articles related to "Russian Army"

Young Russians are drafted into an armed forces with too many officers and extreme hazing practices. Russian military conditions can result in the death of its soldiers.

With 14 million peasant drafts lead by an officer corps one percent of that size, the Russian army was short of every single thing except soldiers, bravery and enemies.

The Russian Civil War pitted communist Red armies against counter-revolutionary White armies in a six year long armed struggle. This is a look at those White forces.

Between June 1942 and January 1943 the German army and its Hungarian, Italian and Romanian allies were involved in a struggle of epic proportions against the Soviet army.

The 1914 battle of Tannenberg which was the most stunning German victory of World War One over the Imperial Russian Army

The Mongol invasion of Russia fractured central leadership until the Grand Prince of Moscow shattered the notion that Russians could not break free of Mongol control.

The weakened Imperial Guard, suffering from its World War One losses, fought against its Tsar in March and then refused to stand by the new democratic government as well.

The Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Sniper rifle with either the PU or PE scopes attached were the widow makers of the Eastern Front and Korea.

Sapajou's cartoons for the North China Daily News made him internationally famous. But World war II ended Shanghai's heyday-- and Sapajou's career.

Death, hardships and horror were a fact of life for a northeastern Wisconsin woman when she was growing up in Lwow, Poland, during World War II and the Holocaust.

Well equipped and fairly modern by eastern european standards, the Army of the Dual Monarchy suffered one of the worst morale problems imaginable.

Despite initial successes, the Russian march to Constantinople was severely weakened by Osman Pasha at the Battle of Plevna and the threats of British intervention.

Thrust into a war against the greatest military mind of the time, Alexander, his army and the Russian winter succeeded where no other had.

The renowned chemist, businessman, and inventor gave the world its most prestigious award for literature, peace, and the sciences.

Despite rumours, myths, and legends that a couple of the princesses survived and escaped it now appears that the entire Romanov family was summarily executed.

Defiance is based on the true story of the Jewish Bielski brothers, who survived in the forest in Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

Peter the Great during his youth became convinced of the need to reform the Russian state in order for the monarchy to survive.

Russian lawmakers are sanctioning the independence movements of Georgia's two disputed breakaway provinces.

The Charge of the Light Brigade actually took place during the Battle of Balaclava, fought on the 25th October 1854 and became renowned for its high number of deaths.

The Russian Tzar Peter the Great was determined to modernise and reform Russia in order to increase its military prowess as much as increasing royal power.

The Seven Years' War dragged on, expanding past the confines of continental Europe into the seas and abroad. Meanwhile, Russia entered the conflict with a large army.

The country of Sweden is synonymous with Volvo and ABBA, but Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize is perhaps Sweden's most endearing commodity.

Both assuming eventual victory, early in the war the Nazi German and Communist Russian governments analyzed and began to implement plans for Eastern Europe

As a young infantry soldier with the US 106th Division, Vonnegut spent seven months as a POW, an experience he recounted in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

The historian Peter Martland maintains that the Italian dictator received £100 a week to support the alliance with UK. The money should have been spent on mistresses.

Solzhenitsyn stands among the great names in Russian literature - Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Sholokhov and Gorky. His works brought 20th Century Russia to the world.

Year 2008 saw the fourth installment of Rambo and after taking on the Vietnamese and Russian armies in the previous two sequels in Rambo IV he fought the Burmese army

The Russian Imperial Guards formed in 1683 from 50 childhood playmates by Peter the Great had by 1905 swollen to a force of over 50,000 men and saved the throne once more

A list of the units assigned to the Tsar's own Russian Imperial Guard at its apogee on March 12, 1917- during the Russian Revolution

As part of Operation Magistral the 9th Company of the 345th Guards Airborne Regiment took and held a mountain outnumbered 10 to one by Mujahideen

Through a combination of ruthlessness and guile, Stalin succeeded in consolidating his power in the vast Soviet bureacracy of his early career.

German defeat at Stalingrad resulted from irrational strategy devised by Adolf Hitler as well as numerous other factors including supply problems and weather.

Montenegro began the war as the poorest equipped of all of the 1914 armies but never faltered, and often outfought its enemies.

The 1914-1920 Czech Legion is the focus of a new documentary entitled "The Accidental Army: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion" by the Czech Legion Project

Strong-willed Georgia Governor Joe Brown squandered thousands of scarce dollars on an order for 10,000 Pikes to defend his state during the US Civil War.

Authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Gunter Grass, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, William Butler Yeats, and Boris Pasternak are recognized.

Tthe Russian Imperial Guards founded in 1683 by Peter the Great as the first truely modern elite Russian army and fought throughout the world from Narva to Mukden.

Starting at the end of the twelfth century, a series of crusades were waged in the lands to the east of the Baltic sea.

A look at the over 40,000 Russian women who served in non-combatant and in direct combat roles in the Armies of the Tsar and the Provisional Government in World War One

This perfume was created at a pivotal time in French and Russian culture.

The crazy life of white russian Major General Baron Ungern von Sternberg, psychopathic warlord of Mongolia and Military Buddhist

Anne Frank in 2009, on her 80th birthday anniversary and 65 years since the hiding place on the third floor was discovered by the German Security Police, is remembered.

In the last century, three sub-species of tigers vanished. Several more will likely follow. What can the Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers teach humans about conservation?

European riverboat cruise vacations on the Elbe River can include stops in Germany (Hamburg, Magdeburg, Berlin, Dessau, Wittenberg, Dresden) and Czech Republic (Prague).

If travel takes you to Boston, set course for La Voile on Newbury Street. Dine as if you landed in Southern France. Brasserie by menu, bistro by atmosphere, loved by all.

The Czech Legion started from humble beginnings in 1914 and ended up as one of the last reliable units on the World War One Eastern Front.

Hindenburg was Weimar Germany's second president, after Freidrich Ebert, and he lead the nation through tough financial times. He appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor.

Japanese troops, assisted by the British, French and Americans, occupied the Russian far east for several years during the Russian Civil War.

What started off as a strike ended up with artillery and the Tsarist Imperial Guard putting down a full fledged revolt that forever after left the Presnia district Red.

Tensions between Russia and Chechnya had been present before and during the 20th century, escalating into a bloody and brutal war in 1994 which shocked the Western world.