1 Jan 1913 Jahr - Czar Nicholas II/Bolsheviks

Beschreibung:

Czar Nicholas II approved Russian mobilization, and this led to Germany declaring war on Russia. Czar Nicholas II's decision to take personal command of the armed forces in August 1915 was one of the most disastrous decisions in Russian history. At a stroke he both removed effective leadership from the war effort and absented himself from the seat of the political power in the empire. As the war on the Eastern Front dragged on, both of these factors conspired to lead Russia into catastrophe. A significant amount of responsibility for the military defeat of Russia and its descent into the horrors of revolution and communism must be laid at the feet of its last emperor. / By 1921, after a period of great unrest, the Bolsheviks triumphed in Russia, and largely reunited the old empire. The repercussions of the events that took place on the Eastern Front, from 1914 to 1921, however, would have a profound impact upon world history for the remainder of the century and beyond - although it was the battles of the Western Front that eventually achieved greater fame.