Why Did Russia Lose The First World War

A person can take cuts scraps and even slashes and survive after a little blood loss, but if the wounds are not treated and dressed properly then infection will set in and kill them. In World War I Russia did not die from her wounds but died of infection. Yes Russia faced many problems during the First World War but so did everyone else and yet some of them, like the French, not only survived the war but ended up winning it. Even saying that Russia lost the war is not the best statement that can be made. A more accurate representation of what happened is that Russians lost parts of the war. This better reflects the inability of Russians to work together to overcome problems and to make decisions that could have helped lead Russia to overall
The officers had no relationship with the men that fought under their command. They believed that there men where beneath them, but that belief did not show on the battlefield. In fact on the battlefield the officers were top notch leaders and displayed a selfless example (Horne 63). Winning the war was more important than class lines for the French. French commanders might have treated their soldiers horribly, but they did not let that come on to the battlefield they worked with their soldiers and each other to accomplish their mission. Class lines existed in French society and could have been a problem for the French military but winning the war took president and so French officers kept the problems of status in society off the battlefield. They did not let class be a wound that weakened France in the war. In Russia on the other hand, class separation occurred between commanders themselves and they were not willing to forget about their differing backgrounds and work together. The class lines were extremely rigid. Two Fifths of officers in the Russian army were of the peasant class, but if Sukhomlinov, the Chief of the