HIST 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mikhail Rodzianko, Committee, Petrograd Soviet
4 Aug 2019
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Hist 316 class 5: catastrophe looms, the february revolution. Polivanov, the russian minister of war, increased the number of shells by 20 folds at least by involving a lot of people in the war effort. However, the russians were doing pretty well on the front since the germans focused their efforts on. In 1916, brusilov organized a major offensive on the front against the austrians. Austria is not doing well since not all of the 12 major nations of the country want to fight the russians (like the. Czechs for instance, since they consider themselves slavs and therefore closer to russia than austria). Russian troops are now well armed and supplied, and it seems that they can strike a victory i n the. But the germans come to the rescue of the austrians and defeat russia. Meanwhile, in the rear, it"s a new kind of war with a home front and everyone works for the needs of the war.
