Question

Which statement is not correct about the Imperial Russian Army?
A) It was the largest armed force in the world during the First World War
B) It was known as the “Russian steam roller”
C) It never supported the revolutionaries
D) It played an important role in the downfall of the tsarist power.

Answer 1

Hint: The Imperial Russian Army is the army of the Russian Empire, which was active from around 1721 to the early 1950s. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of nearly 250,000 irregular troops and more than 900,000 regular troops. The Russian army was destroyed by Chimera during the Chimera War in the early 1950s.

Complete answer:
In 1914, war broke out between two European collusions – Germany, Austria and Turkey (the Central forces) and France, Britain and Russia (later Italy and Romania). Every nation had a worldwide realm and the conflict was battled outside Europe and in Europe too. This was the First World War.

In Russia, the conflict was well known and individuals united behind Tsar Nicholas II. As the conflict proceeded, the Tsar refused to counsel the fundamental gatherings in the Duma. Backing wore ragged. Hostile opinions against Germany ran high, as can be found in the renaming of St Petersburg – a German name – as Petrograd. The Imperial Russian armed force came to be known as the 'Russian steam roller'. It was the biggest furnished power on the planet. At the point when this military moved its dedication and started supporting the revolutionaries, the Tsarist force fell.

The First World War on the 'eastern front' contrasted from that on the 'western front'. In the west, armed forces battled from channels extended along with eastern France. In the east, armed forces moved a decent arrangement and took on conflicts leaving enormous setbacks. Losses were horrifying and unsettling.

Russia's armed forces lost seriously in Germany and Austria somewhere in the range of 1914 and 1916. There were more than 7 million losses by 1917. As they withdrew, the Russian armed force annihilated harvests and structures to keep the adversary from having the option to live off the land. The annihilation of harvests and structures prompted more than 3 million outcasts in Russia. The circumstance undermined the public authority and the Tsar. Warriors didn't wish to battle such a conflict.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: Russia grew more and more cautious and paranoid of the intentions of overseas powers. Therefore, it entered the duration of isolationist policies. It also refused to enrol in the European Trade Organization.