Leon Trotsky7 August 1918
A train is constructed for Trotsky to command the Red Army
Russia · Warfare / Civil War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
A train is constructed for Trotsky to command the Red Army
Leaves Moscows in his command train, "a flying apparatus of administration"
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