Russk.imperat.armiia nakanun.i v gody Velikoi voiny - Suriaev V.

This monograph examines the organization and functioning of the Russian Imperial Army on the eve and during the First World War: its combat composition, number, manning of officers and lower ranks, armament, control system, combat training, moral and psychological state of troops, etc. The main operations on the Western Front and the course of the War as a whole are analyzed. The author concluded that the Russian Imperial Army was armed, trained and equipped at the level of the leading powers of its time and up to the revolutions of 1917 had a high morale, which allowed it to make a decisive contribution to the Victory of the Entente over the aggressors from The Fourth Union. The chronological framework of the study period - from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to February 1917.