HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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lacked military leaders
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they didn’t have enough soldiers
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didn’t have enough weapons
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equipment was outdated
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Detailed explanation-1: -By entering World War I, Russia kept the word given to its allies and partners. Despite some reforms in the preceding decade, the Russian army in 1914 was ill-equipped to fight a major war, and neither the political nor the military leadership was up to the standard required.
Detailed explanation-2: -The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917–20, followed by decades of Communist rule.
Detailed explanation-3: -The standard infantry weapon in 1914 was the Mosin-Nagant rifle and machine-gun units used modern Maxims manufactured in Russia. It is claimed that the Russian Army had 7, 100 field guns, 540 field howitzers and 257 heavy guns. In 1910 General Yuri Danilov had developed what became known as Plan 19.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lenin believed that Russia must end its participation in the war so that the nation could focus on building a communist state based on the ideas of Karl Marx, a German philosopher who lived in the mid-1800s.