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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.
This worked for a time until Kerensky left and the effect on the troops waned. [12] The June Offensive, which started on 16 June, lasted for just three days before falling apart. [13] During the offensive, the rate of desertion was high and soldiers began to mutiny, with some even killing their commanding officers instead of fighting. [14]
In August 1917 it was renamed the Kornilov Shock Regiment, but after the Kornilov affair its name was changed to 1st Russian or Slavonic Shock Regiment. [3] The "Slavonic" name reflected the fact that the regiment included Czech volunteers from the Russian army's Czechoslovak Legion, who wanted to preserve the unit from being disbanded by the Russian Provisional Government.
In late June 1917, in an effort to bolster support for the war effort through triumph in battle, then-War Minister Aleksandr Kerensky authorized a military offensive on the Eastern front. [ 15 ] The offensive began 18 June 1917 and continued to 6 July 1917, coinciding with the July Days. [ 16 ]
On July 1, 1917, at the beginning of the Kerensky Offensive, part of the Legion in action was once again trapped by a Russian attack near Berezhany. [ 6 ] With the German occupation of Ukraine in early 1918 and the establishment of a new government under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyj , the Habsburg Monarchy was in danger of losing influence over ...
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]
Kerensky and Brusilov, who replaced Alekseyev as Supreme Commander just before the start of the Kerensky Offensive, also responded to infantry mutinies by organizing new units of shock troops called the "Battalions of Death" or shock battalions, made up of volunteers from the front line troops, rear-area troops, and civilians. During 1917 there ...
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 ...