To: wagglebee
Russia was rapidly expanding in the decade or two leading to Great War. But the fundamentally flawed autocratic state could not handle the pressure from the Great War.
6 posted on
07/11/2012 7:45:02 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
You're right, Russia did start to expand in the late 19th century, but the reality is that their industrial infrastructure probably a century or more behind the UK, France or Germany at the start of WWI.
10 posted on
07/11/2012 8:03:19 AM PDT by
wagglebee
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