HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Saint Petersburg, Petrograd Soviet, April Theses

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Foresees war as industrial, mass use of men and technology that would result in a deadlock due to sides being evenly matched, cannot overpower other. Held the minority view that war would be long and prove costly (human, economic, political) Said war would create social unrest, spinoff wars and revolution. Also, war would destroy the social fabric of warring nations. Eastern war- movement- russians initially advanced but were pushed back (tannenberg, missourian lakes) German and austhung organize a joint campaign against russia. Warsaw in 1915 and advance into poland, latvia and lithuania. Russian army- massive manpower. (11 million + additional 4 mil) in field. Army has the human power to fight on but war proves very costly. 1916/7 russian economy collapses and state is in jeopardy. Sealed train- starts in zurich, ends in petrograd on april 3rd, 1917. Passage is secured by the germans which is why lenin insisted the train was sealed (prove he had no contact with germans)

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