What is Soviet Armed Forces?
[[File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg|thumb|Emblem of Soviet Armed Forces]] The '''Armed Forces of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic''', and then the '''Union of Soviet Socialist Republics''', commonly known as the '''Soviet Armed Forces''', the '''Armed Forces of the Soviet Union''' were the armed forces of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] (1917–1922) and the [[Soviet Union]] (1922–1991). It was the armed forces of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Bolshevik Party]] since in the begining of the [[Russian Civil War]] of 1917–1923.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GngYDAAAQBAJ&q=USSR+armed+forces|title=The Military History of the Soviet Union|last1=Kagan|first1=F.|last2=Higham|first2=R.|date=2016-04-30|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-12029-8|language=en}}</ref> They were also known as the '''[[Red Army]].''' In May 1992, Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] issued decrees forming the [[Armed Forces of the Russian Federation|Russian Armed Forces]]. It included much of the Soviet Armed Forces.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Brian D.|date=2003|title=The Soviet Military and the Disintegration of the USSR|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26925260|journal=Journal of Cold War Studies|volume=5|issue=1|pages=17–66|doi=10.1162/152039703320996713 |jstor=26925260 |s2cid=57572082 |issn=1520-3972}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Military of the Soviet Union]] {{military-stub}}