![]() ![]() This was a rabble-rousing exaggeration, but certainly the outdated strategies of Russia's General Staff had cost hundreds of thousands of lives, while the regime seemed careless of such appalling losses. ![]() ![]() The rumours were unfounded, but by November 1916 influential critics of the regime were asking whether Russia's misfortunes - including 1,700,000 military dead and 5,000,000 wounded - were a consequence of 'stupidity or treason'. ![]() Many factors - including the militarisation of industry and crises in food supply - threatened disaster on the home front.Īdded to this cocktail were rumours that the tsarina, Alexandra, and her favourite, the infamous Rasputin, were German spies. However, the country's political and economic problems were greatly exacerbated by the war. The supply of rifles and artillery shells to the Eastern Front was vastly improved, and in the Brusilov Offensive of June 1916, Russia achieved significant victories over the Austrians - capturing Galicia and the Bukovina - and she was also more than holding her own in Transcaucasia, against Turkey. Fortunately for the Russians, they did better in 1916. ![]()
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