Tsar Nicholas II was the nominal leader of Russia during World War I, until the October and November Revolutions in 1917 unseated him from power. In 1917, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin took control and quickly ended the war with Germany and Austro-Hungary with the treaty of Brest-Litvosk.
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Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. The growing influence of Gregory Rasputin over the Romanov’s did a great deal to damage the royal family and by the end of the spring of 1917, the Romanovs, who had ruled Russia for just over 300 years, was taken by the provisional goverment.
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Russia was one of the few countries that participated in both World War I and World War II. During World War I the Russian army was known as the Cossacks.
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It hoped to receive support from Great Britain and France by staying in the war
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