1906-1917 Flashcards
Inflation after the war
Average earnings doubled
Price of food & fuel quadrupled
Men taken from the countryside for war
15 m
Troops killed or wounded 1914
4,000,000
MILITARY - patriotic support for tsar + Russian army entered East Prussia and parts of Austro-Hungarian empire
August 1914
Russia captured Austro Hungarian Fortress town of Przemysl
September 1914
110,000 prisoners
M FAILURES : Battle of Tannenburg
1914
Casualties at battle of tannenburg
30,000 casualties, 95,000 captured
Nicholas II assumed control of army
September 1915
Brusilov Offensive
August 1916
War Industries Committee
July 1915
Progressive bloc
236 out of 422 State Duma deputies
Inflation after war
200% August 1914 to December 1916
How much did Russia spend on war
17,000 m roubles
Poor transportation led to how many wagons of food to the capital
From 2,200 to 300 by 1916
International women’s day and putilov engineering led to how many protestors and when
100,000 on the 23rd February
Order number 1
Passed by all Russian soviet, troops can elect their own officers
PG made links to soviet
6 members joined Pg including kerensky
Peasants took over land by force PG 1917
700 complaints from land owners June 1917
WW1 soviet conflicts with PG and publishes what and when
‘Address to the people of the whole world, declaring peace without annexations or indemnities’ (14 March 1917
June offensive
16 June 1917
June offensive led to
Mass desertions of 12,000 and the July days
April theses where and when?
7th April Finland station
Machine gunners from…. Sent to factories and military units when?
First Machine gun regiment , 3rd July 1917
Workers and soldiers took over where? 1917
Peter and Paul fortress