Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918

Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918 by Lincoln, W. Bruce. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780195089547.

Invaded by foreign armies and threatened by the terrors of civil strife, Russias leaders mobilized more than fifteen million fighting men between 1914 and 1918 only to find that at least a quarter of them had no boots, rifles, or ammunition. With field casualties soaring into the millions, scourges of starvation and disease joined the enemys guns to double and treble Russias human losses. Never in modern history had war so devastated a nation. Recounting the tale of the Russians passage through the shattering experience of the First World War and the revolutions of 1917, W. Bruce Lincoln offers a profoundly intelligent and detailed chronology of the watershed events and devastating hardships that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Mining an abundance of resources, including letters, diaries, memoirs, government reports, military dispatches, and testimony given to the revolutions first Supreme Commission of Inquiry, he allows the reader to step directly into army headquarters, state council chambers, boudoirs, trenches, and underground revolutionary hideaways of the men and women who shaped the events of this crucial era.