Tag Archive for desertion

RUSSIA: THE REVOLUTION SPREADS

Soldiers Throw Down Their Arms. Refuse Orders to the Trenches. Mutiny Favors the Bolsheviks. Special to The Great War Project. (10 September) The turmoil in Russia remains unabated. It is not yet clear who rules Russia in the aftermath of the revolution earlier in the year and the abdication of Tsar Nicolas the Second. But…

BITTERNESS AMONG THE TROOPS IS GROWING

 As Desertion Mounts, It Turns to Mutiny. Biting Words from the Poets of the Front. Special to The Great War Project (18 May) The on-again-off-again nature of the trench warfare on the Western Front, leaves plenty of time for contemplation among the troops deployed there. “For those who fought in the trenches,” writes the historian…

‘GREAT RETREAT’ IN RUSSIA

Soldiers and Civilians Fill the Roads Fleeing Eastward Desertion in Russian Army Grows; Strikes Spread. Special to The Great War Project (10-13 January) Despite its successes on the battlefields of the war, Germany is still nervous about the weakness of its allies —  Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Despite its losses, the Russian Army still…