Russian Revolution
Czar Nicholas II
The royal Romanov
leader Nicholas II, appointed men in charge of military affairs.
These men had an outdated idea of military strategy. They believed
that the bravery of the Russian soldier would be enough to guide Russia
through the war. The terror of the revolution had begun. The
soldiers who came back, continued military methods of behavior in the villages.
They the Soldiers, became the main supporters of the new regime.
In March of 1917, a chaotic bread riot was effectively turned into a revolution,
by an order for troops to open fire on unarmed citizens. It was the
senseless killing which turned these bread riots into a revolution. The
Bolshevik party seized power by force on November 7. Bolshevik policy
was the withdrawal of Russia from the war, and on November 20 the government
that had just come into power offered Germany an armistice. The Brest-Litosvk
treaty was signed between Russia and German negotiators, which ceased fighting
on the eastern front.
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