What was the significance of the Russian Revolution in World war 1?

Answer 1

The Russian Revolution happened in 1917, and World War I took place in the years 1914-1918. So therefore, they both influenced the other. The war helped bring about the Revolution because the leader of the Provisional Government, Kerensky, decided to keep the war going although Russia was doing poorly. He even announced a new offensive. The soldiers didn't like the idea, and refused to move up to the front, and about 2 million soldiers had quit the Russian army because of it. The soldiers and Bolsheviks campaigned against the war, and many were arrested. There was a conflict between the Bolsheviks and the Provisional Government, and on October 24-25, 1917, the Bolsheviks revolted against the Provisional Government and succeeded. Lenin, a Bolshevik leader, was given power. Lenin vowed to end the war, and was able to make a peace treaty with Germany, pulling Russia out of the war. Germany wanted peace in the east so their troops could be transferred to the western front. but Germany also wanted nationalist uprisings against the Bolsheviks, so the peace treaty was prolonged until early 1918, when Germany forced Russia to sign the peace treaty. Then, Russia was officially out of the war.

Answer 2

Russia's horrific losses on the Eastern Front were a significant factor in precipitating the Revolution. After the Revolution, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought Russia's conflict with Germany to an end. Germany was able to re-commit troops and resources from the Eastern Front to France and Belgium. By this time however, the United States had entered the war on the side of Britain and France, more than compensating for the loss of Russia.

___It can also be concluded that the Russian Revolution helped end the war because had Russia not had the Revolution Germany would not have focused all of its powers on France which then would not have led an end even had the Americans joined because there would still be soldiers on the Eastern Front. ____The Russian Revolution had another effect in the medium term, From 1918 onwards all European countries, the U.S. and Japan were 'haunted by the spectre of Bolshevism'. In some countries it even became a complete obsession ...

Answer 3

At the beginning of WW I (1914), Russia, among others, was allied with England and France. In 1917, the Tsar of Russia was overthrown and eventually replaced (in October 1917) with a Bolshevik government. The Bolsheviks, who were engaged in their own civil war with the Tsarists, negotiated a peace treaty with Germany (Brest-Litovsk), thus freeing the German Army to concentrate on the western front. Despite this, Germany surrendered to its enemies in November 1918.

Answer 4

Well for one thing Russia became the U.S.S.R and it stoped fighting world war one and there had been no communist state before then.

Answer 5

In the Russian revolution the Communists lead by Lenin took control of Russia and stopped fighting the Germans which allowed the Germans to focus all their power on the western front.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Answer the questions using the attached notes and/or the provided powerpoints (they are forthcoming). Properly cite if you use outside resources. I realize that there aren't lots of details here, so just be as specific as you can/the notes allow. The attached notes are numbered so you can read them in order. The questions largely follow the same sequence.

Inter-War Years Questions to go with notes/powerpoints

Russian Revolution:

1. What is Communism?

2. What is totalitarianism?

3. What role did WW1 play in the Russian Revolution?

4. Why did the provisional government fail?

5. Who took over rule of Russia after the Civil War?

6. Who succeeded Lenin?

7. Explain Lenin’s New Economic Policy and Stalin’s 5 year plans. What were the results?

8. How did Stalin keep power and control society?

Fascism and Totalitarianism:

9. What is Fascism?

10. How did the conditions of the Versailles Treaty anger Germans and Italians?

11. Who were the “Black Shirts” and explain how Mussolini came to power in Italy?

12. How did Mussolini keep power/control society?

13. Who were the “Brown Shirts” and explain how Hitler came to power in Germany?

14. How did Hitler keep power/control society?

15. Explain Hitler’s ideas about racial superiority.

16. How did the military take control of Japan?

WW2 beginnings:

17. Why did the League of Nations fail to stop Japan from taking the Chinese territory of Manchuria?

18. Why did the Italians want to take Ethiopia?

19. How did Hitler gain territory and violate the Versailles treaty prior to WW2? Why didn’t other League of Nations members stop him?

20. What happened in Spain in the 1930s?