quite hard questions about WWI and Russia?

Question

1)
What problems did russia have during the early stages of WW1
2) what was russias military performance like in WWI
3) what was the Febuary revolution of 1917

Answer 1

1 The biggest problem Russia had in the earliest stages of the war is that they launched an invasion of Germany before they were ready for it. This greatly helped the French by forcing the Germans to transfer troops away from the Western front to defend East Prussia, but it led to a disaster for the Russians at Tannenburg.

2 In general, the Russians fared poorly against the German army, but did very well against Austria and the Ottoman empire up until everything started falling apart in 1917.

3The February revolution was when the Tsar abdicated and a liberal democratic provisional government, led by Alexandr Kerensky, took over. They would have had a decent chance to be successful, except that they bowed to allied pressure to keep Russia in the war. This was popularly viewed as an indication that the provisional govenment was more concerned with the wishes of the French Govenment than the Russian people, and this discontent led to the October Revolution, where the Bolsheviks took over.

Answer 2

1. their army was getting DESTROYED
2. PITIFUL
3. The February Revolution in 1917 in Russia is the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Its immediate result was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the collapse of Imperial Russia and the end of the Romanov dynasty. A provisional, non-Communist government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the tsar, Prince Lvov being succeeded by Alexander Kerensky after the tumult of the July Days. The Provisional government was an alliance between liberals and socialists who wanted to instigate political reform, creating a democratically-elected executive and constituent assembly.

The February Revolution took place in March 1917 of the modern calendar (Gregorian calendar). In the calendar Russia was using at the time (Julian calendar), the events fell into February, which explains the revolution's name.

This revolution appeared to break out spontaneously, without any real leadership or formal planning, supposedly due to the fact that the people of Russia had had enough of the existing system. The tensions which had for so long been building up finally exploded into a revolution, and the western state of Petrograd (the City of St. Petersburg prior to the war) became the focal point of activity. An illustration of just how large Russia was is that it took some years for eastern parts of the country to realise that a revolution had actually taken place.

The February Revolution was followed in the same year by the October Revolution, bringing about Bolshevik rule and a change in Russia's social structure, while also paving the way for the USSR and Communism. Two revolutions were required in order to change the composition of the country: the first overthrew the Czar, and the second instituted properly a new government.

Answer 3

Easy
1) early in WW1 the russians lost two armies while attacking East Prussia- among others in the battle of Tannenberg

2) they blew the early part of the war, then consolidated especially in the southern area- against Austria. The russian casualties were very high because they kept using human wave attacks- same as the Austrians and the Germans- but their discipline was poorer

3) a failed try by the commies to take over. After all Lenin was sent to Russia by the German high command in order to "neutralise" Russia's military. seems Lenin tried to make his bosses happy real fast