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The Kerensky offensive (Russian: Наступление Керенского), also called the summer offensive, the June offensive (Russian: Июньское наступление) in Russia, or the July offensive in Western historiography, took place from 1 July [O.S. 18 June] to 19 July [O.S. 6 July] 1917 and was the last Russian offensive of World War I.
Jailbirds of Kerensky (Russian: Птенцы Керенского, Ptentsy Kerenskogo) [1] was an informal term used during the Russian Revolution for people who were released from Russian jails on amnesty. A total of three amnesties were enacted by Russian Minister of Justice Alexander Kerensky in 1917. According to some historians, about ...
The Battle of Zborov (Зборівська битва, Zborivska bytva in Ukrainian, Зборовское сражение in Russian, Schlacht bei Zborów in German, bitva u Zborova in Czech, bitka pri Zborove in Slovak) was a part of the Kerensky Offensive (the last Russian offensive in World War I, taking place in July 1917).
The battalions of death were created on the initiative of General Aleksei Brusilov, the commander of the Southwestern Front who later became the Army Supreme Commander, in response to mutinies and the decline in discipline among the infantry after the February Revolution. Brusilov formally made a call on 5 June 1917 for volunteers to join ...
Kerensky offensive – Austro-Hungarian and German forces counterattacked and broke through the Russian line in Galicia, pushing Russian forces back toward the Zbruch river. [95] [96] The Reichstag (German Parliament) passed a peace resolution by 212 to 126 votes in an attempt to open peace negotiations that would end World War I.
The offensive began 18 June 1917 and continued to 6 July 1917, coinciding with the July Days. [16] The Russian soldiers initially saw victory over the Austro-Hungarian forces , whom they managed to take by surprise, but German troops soon began a counteroffensive that devastated the Russian army.
In the middle of June 1917, the division joined the 12th Army Corps at Stanislavov in preparation of the Kerensky Offensive. On 8 July, the division launched an offensive on Kalush and Dolyna. On 12 July, the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Caucasus Cossack Division thwarted a German counter-offensive at Kalush. [26]
On 29 June 1917, Alexander Kerensky, the Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government, launched the Kerensky offensive to end Austria-Hungary once and for all. The Russians made only 6 miles (9.7 km) of progress but the Austrians counterattacked and drove them almost entirely out of Austria-Hungary, and they retreated 150 miles (240 km ...