The Death of the Russian Army 1917 (WW1 Documentary)

The Great War September 9, 2023
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Get a 2-year NordVPN plan plus 4 additional months with a HUGE discount: https://nordvpn.com/thegreatwar As 1917 began, the Russian army was larger and better-equipped than ever before. Within weeks, the Tsar and his dynasty were gone, and by the summer, the Russian army was disintegrating before the eyes of its generals – but how exactly did one of the most powerful armies in the world collapse? » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realtimehistory Nebula: https://nebula.tv/the-great-war » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Engelstein Laura. Russia in Flames : War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921 (NY.: OUP, 2018). Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy. Stone, David. The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (Kansas UP, 2015). Gulʹ, Roman. (1966). Oral history interview with Roman Borisovich Gul' 1966. Columbia Digital Library Collections [Columbia University Libraries]. [Oral histories sound recording]. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-ymra-bx03 Palmer, Svetlana and Sarah Wallis. A War in Words (London: Simon and Shuster, 2003). Reese R. Roger. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2019). Smele, Jonathan. The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars 1916-1926 (London: Hurst, 2015). Асташов А.Б. Русский фронт в 1914 ֊ начале 1917 года: военный опыт и современность (Москва : Новый хронограф, 2014). Базанов С.Н. Великая война: как погибала Русская армия (Москва: Вече, 2014). Гребёнкин И. Н. Разложение российской армии в 1917 г.: факторы и акторы процесса // Новейшая история России. 2014. № 3. С. 145-161. Доброволицы. Сборник воспоминаний (Москва: Русский путь, 2001) Уайлдман А. Разложение императорской армии в 1917 г. // Критический словарь Русской революции. СПб.: Нестор-История, 2014. С. 78-87. » OUR SISTER CHANNEL https://youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Philipp Appelt Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander, Sofia Shirogorova Fact checking: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images and AP Archive Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023