The Imperial Russian Army of the First World War (1914 - 1917) 

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Russia seems to have been a total shambles. I read Young Stalin By Seabag Montefiore and the place is hard to believe.

@@julianshepherd2038 Still have to check out that book!

Thanks, here the bigger story about Russia in WW1 with more details about the campaigns: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3iE4NSiZtIQ.html

Better late than never:)

@@HistoryHustle time was running so fast, but you know - hope dies last. Can't wait another video

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Thanks Eleanor!

Thanks for your reply, Nikki!

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Haha, for sure!

Thank you!

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Many thanks for your enthusiasm as always :)

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Thanks!!

Dank! Ja, inderdaad, een Russisch gecentreerde kaart.

@@HistoryHustle Dat begreep ik, maar niet meteen ...

Graag gedaan, Marcel. Dank voor je reactie!

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Nice to read, thanks you Professor!

Thanks, Mostafa!

Thank you, Jan! It's an interesting map. Found it under the dust in a storage on my school.

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My school.

Thanks. You're in luck. Not this but NEXT Saturday I'll talk about Estonian volunteers. About the other Baltic nations I won't talk anytime soon.

great!

sure was!

Complicated history, love to discuss more on that in the future.

Thanks. And yes, it was a short video for such a huge army. Since it hasn't been watched that well I won't make an extended version or mini series about this topic.

I can give you a link to a Russian historian who specializes in this topic. A book about Russian officers is uploaded on his personal website. However, it is in Russian and you will have to use a translator that will not be 100% accurate.

@@jangrosek4334 That would be nice, yes please

@@jpm8782 The book was written in 1993 and today it is probably the largest study of the Russian officers from 1700 to 1917. swolkov.org/rok/index.htm Sergey Volkov is a Russian historian, researcher of elite social strata of society. He mainly studies the Russian Empire and the White movement.

@@jangrosek4334 Thanks a lot

Perhaps some time!

Interesting! What did he tell you about his experiences?

@@HistoryHustle nothing about the army. Just the revolution. He said everyone was screaming freedom while they stole everything from shops and the wealthy. Lol.

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@@HistoryHustle I really enjoyed this video. Keep up the good work! 😀

Soon more on that. Eventually many of them were (forcefully) recruited in the Red Army. Others fought for the Whites.

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You're in luck, in a few weeks an episode as such will come online.

Ja, in Rotterdam.

@History Hustle Wat kun je daar uiteindelijk mee doen? Haha behalve een YT kanaal beginnen, ik ben ook erg geïnteresseerd in Geschiedenis

Geschiedenisleraar worden. En dat ben ik ook. Informeer bij de desbetreffende opleiding voor toekomstperspectieven.

See my sources.

@@HistoryHustle What for? Your sources are wrong.

Don't think so. Lemme state, we can be both right. Initially the Russians had sufficient production. As war progressed all became scarce and they had to import stuff.

@@HistoryHustle Heh, what you want to say? That the Russians had enough rifles for peacetime? They suffered huge deficit after two months of war in both rifles and ammo. In October 1914, the General Directorate of the General Staff of Russia informed the Minister of War that there was a shortage of 870,000 rifles in the active army: 585,000 for the recruits of the 1914 conscription, 170 thousand for replenishment according to the requirements of the fronts, 93 thousand for reserve battalions. Actually, later, during the war they managed to increase production but never even close to satisfy the needs. And as they were a second rate ally, Britain and France had the priority.

That's what I want to say. Russia was prepared for a short war. They - and other nations also - expected WW1 to be short. When that wasn't the case most countries switched over to higher production. Russia wasn't able to do that and thus shortages became rampant.

Funny, the tumbnail in a video haha

Good series.

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Check! Thanks for providing this information!

Misschien ooit een keer.

A game? Dunno it.

I see, Ivan the Jedi!

I see. Glad you liked it

Good question. I believe these were not initially summoned, but later in the war when there was a manpower shortage. It caused much upheaval and tsarist forces had to put the uprising down. Later during the Russian Civil War more violence would occur in the region, as it did occur in other regions of the former empire.

Yes, but you'll have to wait.

@@HistoryHustle ok

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@@HistoryHustle next video. Russian civil war. Havent seen a good one yet

Nope, first some other topics.

Wouldn't say it was the greatest time..

That's great! Hope you had a good day.

In mid-late ww2 they had both (admittedly after getting an ass whoopin from the Germans)

A little too simple, since Russia was also short on manpower. Many conscripts hadn't reach the conscription age.

Wait what??? They got improved mosin nagant rifles, tokarev pistols and semi auto rifles, ppsh and pps smgs, and dp light machine guns. That's not even getting into the heavier stuff. Plus their uniforms and helmets look nothing alike…

Indeed and more on this here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JyhvtBM1wZs.html

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Welcome to the channel!

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@@AppalachianOutdoorsman98 interesting theory. you got any proof to back up your claims?

@@AppalachianOutdoorsman98 well said

@@AppalachianOutdoorsman98 Are you talking rubbish..lol..so they persuaded Hitler to go and kill them..get a grip..think before you write!!

Well put Stella.

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The USSR f... Nazi Germany!

LOL, your rf had nothing to with ussr/west victory . "The last major famine to hit the USSR began in July 1946, reached its peak in February-August 1947 and then quickly diminished in intensity, although there were still some famine deaths in 1948.[1] The situation spanned most of the grain-producing regions of the country: Ukraine, Moldova and parts of central Russia. The conditions were caused by drought, the effects of which were exacerbated by the devastation caused by World War II. The grain harvest in 1946 totaled 39.6 million tons - barely 40% of the yield in 1940. With the war, there was a significant decrease in the number of able-bodied men in the rural population, retreating to 1931 levels. There was a shortage of agricultural machinery and horses. The Soviet government with its grain reserves provided relief to rural areas and appealed to the United Nations for relief. Assistance also came from the Ukrainian (mainly Ruthenian) diaspora and Russians from eastern Ukraine and from North America, which minimized mortality.[2][3] While the cause of the famine is generally attributed to the drought in combination with the existing infrastructural and economic damage of the war, some historians have criticized the government's response as being not as effective as it could have been.[1] For example, during the crisis, the USSR continued with export obligations under the fourth five-year plan,[1] with the majority of it going to the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to consolidate the new Eastern Bloc.[4] Partly as a result of this famine, unlike many countries in Europe and North America, the Soviet Union did not experience a post-war baby boom. Prompted by the drought and famine of 1946-47, the so-called "Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature" was put forth which consisted of a number of ambitious projects in land improvement. "

"Talk about how we liberated Eastern Poland in 1939 from Nazi Germany." Muscovite , you must be joking ....

More on it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ER1AYnOFTEg.html And here about the Red Army: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JyhvtBM1wZs.html

Do you know that you are racist?

@@user-do7xs2mj1b do you know that you are a Muscovite imperialist? do you know that your surname is Belarusian so you are a traitor too ?

@@Adam.G.Trapper I have Belarus passport (sadly) and what? I ready to fight against polish, ukrainian and others EU "friends" for Russia. Ukraine and Belarus artificial state. We all part of Russia Empire ( is doesn't matter capitalist, communist Russia is Empire)!

Harsh words here...

@@HistoryHustle not my problem that this guy is true racist.