HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They were not as industrialized and other countries
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The military underestimated the terrible winter
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The czar left, and Russia was without a government
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They did not have an army
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Detailed explanation-1: -When Russia entered World War I, it was totally unprepared. Its military leaders were weak, and its factories could not make enough weapons and supplies. In the first years of the war, more than two million Russian soldiers were killed. Czar Nicholas II, the Russian monarch, went to the battlefront.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is one way Russia’s lack of industrialization impacted the war? Trench warfare did not develop on the Eastern Front.
Detailed explanation-3: -Russia had the largest army but they suffered heavy causalities during the battle to Germany and Austria. While retreating they destroyed crops and buildings leaving lots of people homeless. The war had a severe impact on the industry and Germany cut the supplies coming to Russia through the Baltic Sea.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.