Faction: The Russian Army The First World War It is claimed that Russia had the largest army in the world at the outbreak of the First World War with 5.9 million men. However Russia's poor roads ...

It is not common but there are pictures and video of Russian and Ukrainian military mixing in WW1 and WW2 era guns and helmets. Some of the Russian (or Russian allied) soldiers are being issued WW2 ...

The Russian Empire implemented some military reforms during the decade that predated the WWI. Yet in 1914, the Russian army was ill-equipped for a major war. Russian factories couldn’t produce ...

Never in living memory had so large an army been assembled — Italians, Poles, German, French — more than 600,000 men from every corner of his empire. Napoleon prophesied the war would be over ...