WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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The ongoing civil war between the Whites and the Reds
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A poorly equipped Army
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The long statemate on the western front
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the necessity of fighting a war on two fronts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Russia was the least industrialized of the great powers and was poorly equipped to fight a modern war. Troops sometimes lacked even rifles. Still, Russian commanders continued to throw masses of peasant soldiers into combat.
Detailed explanation-2: -Russian Empire Included in total are 1, 451, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds. The estimate of the 1, 811, 000 total Russian military and 1, 500, 00 civilian deaths was made by the Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis.
Detailed explanation-3: -World War I popularized the use of the machine gun-capable of bringing down row after row of soldiers from a distance on the battlefield. This weapon, along with barbed wire and mines, made movement across open land both difficult and dangerous. Thus trench warfare was born.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Total war” includes four things: Mobilization, refusal to compromise, the blurring of roles between soldier and civilians, and total control of society. In many ways World War I was total war. There had never been a war that was so widely devastating.