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The auguries for war
He and his dynasty ruled over a huge empire, stretching from central Europe to the Pacific Ocean and from the Arctic to the borders of Afghanistan. -
Campaigns and crises
Russia was hardly prepared for war. Just nine years earlier she had been defeated in a war with tiny Japan -
attack
all of Russian Poland and Lithuania, and most of Latvia, were overrun by the German army. -
the outcome
The supply of rifles and artillery shells to the Eastern Front was vastly improved, and in the Brusilov -
february revolution
Demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now called St. Petersburg) -
anti-war radicals
along with the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, were ferried home from exile in Switzerland in April -
Brest-Litovsk
After taking power, the Bolsheviks promised to deliver 'Peace, Bread and Land' to the beleaguered people of Russia. With regard to the first of these, a 'Decree on Peace' -
bolshevik revolution
The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
This punitive treaty effectively handed over Finland, Poland, the Baltic provinces, Ukraine and Transcaucasia to the Central Powers, -
allied intervetion
their main interest was in the Great War, not the Russian civil war, and their desire was to try and reconstitute the Eastern Front, -
the matériel the Allies
allowing the Whites to mount the campaigns they did in 1919 (the British alone sent one hundred million pounds-worth of equipment to Kolchak and Denikin) -
Whites vs Reds
the Baltic and the Pacific - causing hundreds of thousands of White soldiers and civilians to emigrate -
the Bolsheviks triumphed
fter a period of great unrest, the Bolsheviks triumphed in Russia, and largely reunited the old empire (formally constituted as the USSR in 1923). The repercussions of the events that took place on the Eastern Front,
