Russia – Page 4 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 4, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Warsaw falls to the German Army

The German Army captured Warsaw on August 4-5th 1915 as part of an offensive against the Russians across the Eastern Front.

September 10, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Tsar Nicholas takes Russian supreme command

Russia entered September 1915 with Tsar Nicholas II as the new commander-in-chief of his armies, replacing Grand Duke Nicholas, a fellow member of the royal family.

January 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2016

Centenary News looks ahead to the some of the major First World War anniversaries which will be remembered in 2016.

March 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Russia’s Lake Naroch offensive against the German Army

Russia attacked on the Eastern Front on March 18th 1916, in a failed attempt to ease German pressure on France at Verdun.

June 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Russia’s Brusilov Offensive on Eastern Front

General Aleksei Brusilov launched one of Russia’s most successful attacks of the Great War on June 4th 1916, advancing against Austro-Hungarian forces in present-day Western Ukraine.

January 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017

The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.

March 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates in ‘February Revolution’

Nicholas II was the first of Europe’s imperial rulers to fall during the Great War, forced to abdicate on 15 March 1917 by mass protests in the Russian capital, Petrograd.

July 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Russia’s last Great War offensive – July 1917

The Kerensky Offensive, Russia’s last major attack of the First World War, was fought on the Eastern Front 100 years ago.

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution

On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin’s revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.

Author: Patrick Gregory

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution

On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin's revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.