There comes the Russian! There goes the Russian? The Impact of the Russian Revolutions on the Warfare of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the EasternFront in 1917 Cover Image

Jön a muszka! Megy a muszka? Az oroszországi forradalmak hatása a Monarchia hadviselésére a keleti fronton 1917-ben
There comes the Russian! There goes the Russian? The Impact of the Russian Revolutions on the Warfare of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the EasternFront in 1917

Author(s): Ferenc Pollmann
Subject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet
Keywords: Archduke Joseph; Károly Tersztyánszky; Stefan Sarkotić; Ferenc Bolgár; front friendship; Russian Revolutions

Summary/Abstract: The revolution that erupted in R ussia in the spring of 1917 could have decisively changed the course of World War I – and it finally did so, albeit not quite in the way the military leadership of the Central Powers hoped it would. The paper explores the views of the Austro-Hungarian generalship about the potential effects of the R ussian events on the outcome of the war, on the basis of the diaries and letters of two top military leaders, Archduke Joseph and Károly Tersztyánszky

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 399-406
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian