The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . ld surpass allother attempts to beat them down. TheRussian collapse would mean the bringingof huge reinforcements from the eastfront. The Italians were near a collapseand the French and British had beenforced to give some of their own preciousforces to stem the advance on the meant, too, that with Italy a doubt-ful factor, that Austrians could bebrought to aid the Germans in Franceduring the winter, building up a machineof tremendous power for the spring drive. American troops were coming in, butas y
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . ld surpass allother attempts to beat them down. TheRussian collapse would mean the bringingof huge reinforcements from the eastfront. The Italians were near a collapseand the French and British had beenforced to give some of their own preciousforces to stem the advance on the meant, too, that with Italy a doubt-ful factor, that Austrians could bebrought to aid the Germans in Franceduring the winter, building up a machineof tremendous power for the spring drive. American troops were coming in, butas yet their transportation gave no assur-ance of strong support in the immediatefuture. Many of those that did come hadto be trained in the new kind of warfareand the first of them, the Allies figured,could not be counted upon in any suffi-cient numbers until late the followingyear. So, they turned their entire effortsto preparing for the onslaught, hoping tohold with the least possible losses to them-selves until the United States could as-sume a foremost position in the This photo shows the Maharaja of Patiala inspecting one of the big camouflaged British guns on the Western front. History of the War CHAPTER XI RUSSIAN REVOLUTION — REPUBLIC FORMED — CZARS IMPRISONMENT— BLOODY RIOTS —KERENSKY BECOMES LEADER — TROTSKY ANDLENINE SUCCEED KERENSKY — RUSSIA IN CHAOTIC STATE. The year 1917 witnessed one of the Tnostimportant and far reaching events of his-tory—the fall of the most absolute autoc-racy of Europe, the revolution, theformation of a republic, the abdication ofthe Czar of Russia, and then the counterrevolution which brought chaos and amisrule even more tyrannical than thatunder the Romanotfs. It put new nationson the map and though tlie bloodshed anddisorder that have always marked themetamorphosis of a nation attended thechange, events which have transpired arestill having their effects on Europe, inthat other peoples are following the roadto eventu
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