Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tarihin soja na Tarayyar Soviet ya fara ne a cikin kwanakin da suka biyo bayan juyin juya halin Oktoba na 1917 wanda ya kawo Bolsheviks zuwa mulki. A cikin 1918 sabuwar gwamnati ta kafa Red Army, wanda daga nan ya ci nasara da abokan gaba daban-daban na ciki a cikin Yaƙin Rasha na 1917-1922. Shekaru 1918<unk>21 sun ga rashin nasarar Red Army a cikin Yakin Poland<unk>Soviet (1919<unk>21) da kuma yaƙe-yaƙe na 'yanci don Estonia (1918<unk>20), Latvia (1918<unk>20) da Lithuania (1918<unk>19). Sojojin Red sun mamaye Finland
(Nuwamba 1939); ya yi yaƙi da Battles of Khalkhin Gol na Mayu zuwa Satumba 1939 (tare da abokinsa Mongolia) a kan Japan da kuma abokin ciniki na Manchukuo; an tura shi lokacin da Tarayyar Soviet, tare da yarjejeniya da Nazi Jamus, suka shiga cikin mamayar Poland a watan Satumba na 1939, kuma suka mamaye Baltic States (Yuni 1940), Bessarabia (Yuni zuwa Yuli 1940) da Arewacin Bukovina (Yuni zuwa Yuli 1940) (daga Romania). A Yaƙin Duniya na II Red Army ya zama babban rundunar soja a cikin shan kashi na Nazi Jamus kuma ya ci Manchuria. Bayan yaƙin, ta mallaki Jamus ta Gabas da kuma ƙasashe da yawa a tsakiyar Turai da gabashin Turai, waɗanda suka zama ƙasashe da ke ƙarƙashin ikon Tarayyar Soviet.