When did Russia (then USSR) enter World War 1 and why? And when did they retreat and why?

Question

The most details please and websites and pages please...

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im not american

Answer 1

First of all, there were no USSR in 1914.
Second, Google and Wikipedia will help.

I loooove American "education" aka "no child left behind".

Answer 2

The USSR did not exist in 1914.

Russia was an ally to Serbia and Russia goaded Serbia into declaring war in retaliation for the assaination of Crown Prince Ferdinand . Russia had desires on taking over parts of the Ottoman Empire from Turkey (Turkey was then known as "the sick man of Europe").

But it went horribly wrong when the first Communist Revolution took place - after overthrowing the Tsar, they withdrew from the war.

Answer 3

Russia, not then the USSR, entered WWI as it was part of the 'Triple Alliance' with France and Britain which provided that an attack on one was an attack on all. It also had ties with the Balkans, seen as fellow Slavs and so it also supported Serbia against Austro-Hungary. They started off badly, and went steadily downhill. the generals tended to be grand dukes who didn't know anything about modern warfare. Things finally collapsed totally when the Tsar insisted on taking personal command of the army (don't forget he was an absolute monarch). For an insight into what it was like at the beginning read Solzhenitsyn's 'August 1914' - about ordinary soldiers bumbling about totally lost in the Pripet Marshes, for example.

Answer 4

Well, in 1914 Russia did enter WWI but it was still under the Romanov rule of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Czarina Alexandria. In 1917 the Bolsheivks led 2 revolts against the Czar and other nobility (the second led by Vladimar Lenin who was exiled by Nicholas) The Russian army withdrew from WWI so they could fight a very bloody civil war which resulted in the death of Nicholas, Alexandria and their 5 children