At the start of the Russian Revolution, the Russian military was in an active engagement with the German army, with an estimated 6,900,000 men on the front and another 2,170,000 men in the rear. There was no ignoring the revolution for a military as large as the Russian military even those at the front fighting the Germans. How did the military contribute or respond to the events of February 1917?
What began as worker demonstrations against rumors of a bread shortage erupted into a revolution when troops sent to face the crowds were ordered to shoot at the demonstrators refused to obey the order to fire upon the demonstrators, thus mutinying and joining the demonstrators. Not all of the soldiers in the vicinity participated in the mutiny. The naval garrison at Kronstadt, an island base approximately nineteen miles away, did not participate but only observed the demonstrations.
If the trained navy troops were not a part of the beginning of the revolution, then who were the troops involved? According …show more content…
Where Peter Kenez looked at the dismal officer development before the revolution and Nikolaieff covered what the Russian officers observed of the soldiers on the front line, Ferro goes beyond the two men and looks at the impact the revolution had on the ordinary soldier.
The account of the soldier’s reaction in Ferro’s article differs from what was found in Nikolaieff article, where fall of the Tsar was observed in disbelief of front-line soldier by the account of the generals. Ferro states otherwise, “At the fall of the tsarist government, there was an outburst of joy among the soldiers at the front that was equaled by those at the rear.” A front-line, military population of almost seven million allows the possibility for both to be correct, but it is Ferro that closely examines the ordinary
What began as worker demonstrations against rumors of a bread shortage erupted into a revolution when troops sent to face the crowds were ordered to shoot at the demonstrators refused to obey the order to fire upon the demonstrators, thus mutinying and joining the demonstrators. Not all of the soldiers in the vicinity participated in the mutiny. The naval garrison at Kronstadt, an island base approximately nineteen miles away, did not participate but only observed the demonstrations.
If the trained navy troops were not a part of the beginning of the revolution, then who were the troops involved? According …show more content…
Where Peter Kenez looked at the dismal officer development before the revolution and Nikolaieff covered what the Russian officers observed of the soldiers on the front line, Ferro goes beyond the two men and looks at the impact the revolution had on the ordinary soldier.
The account of the soldier’s reaction in Ferro’s article differs from what was found in Nikolaieff article, where fall of the Tsar was observed in disbelief of front-line soldier by the account of the generals. Ferro states otherwise, “At the fall of the tsarist government, there was an outburst of joy among the soldiers at the front that was equaled by those at the rear.” A front-line, military population of almost seven million allows the possibility for both to be correct, but it is Ferro that closely examines the ordinary