Historians today consider the period preceding the Renaissance to be the Middle Ages, which effectively began with the fall of Rome in the fifth century and lasted for some eight or nine centuries. ... Following the Renaissance, the world started changing in several significant ways
It was "Trotsky" who welded the new Red Army into a disciplined fighting force, although his efforts would prove ultimately to be in vane since he was later persecuted for being a traitor to the state.
