HIST 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Longrun, Civic Nationalism, Pavel Milyukov
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Two major events participation of russia in ww1 that proved to be one of the main causes for the imperial collapse; then the. Russia itself = decision to back serbia was a very hard one for nicholas within 6 or 7 days of the assassination, he was trying to decide whether or not to order general mobilisation. = crucial for the russians to be prepared before the germans managed to do so, since the russian government were aware of the. European situation = 10 years after the japanese defeat there was awareness that russia was not ready for a massive conflict. Russia: men were disposable (in a democracy, such thinking would not be allowed) Russian army known as the steamroller when it was defeated repeatedly, there was a general mood of demoralisation as, seeing the advantages of germany and realising that the technological lag of the. Russian economy was hurting military capability, the soldiers became disillusioned.
