Eastern Front - 1917: The Russian Revolution

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Eastern Front - 1917: The Russian Revolution: In the early spring of 1917 the initiative was definitely with the Allies. A simultaneous offensive by all the Allies was planned, with the intention of preventing the Germans from transferring reserves from one front to another. This plan was ruined by the snapping of the weakest link in the Allied chain, Russia. Although the Russian army was now better armed, better equipped, and probably better directed than ever before, the losses of the previous two and a half years had worn out the rank and file, who were weary for peace. Still, the army could have held but for
Eastern Front, major theater of combat during World War I that included operations on the main Russian front as well as campaigns in Romania. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front.