The First World War ep 8 Revolution pt3

The use of unrest, mutiny, and revolution as a weapon of war

Increasingly throughout the First World War, the governments faced the risk of their men mutinying, morale cracking, and civillians raising up in strikes and civil disobedience. Starting with Russia's Revolution of Febuary 1017, the film examins the dangerous effects of war weariness, near fatal French mutinies, catastropic Italian mass desertions and widespread Brishish industrial unrest.
"Revolution" reveals that even as governments worried about how to contain unrest on their own side, they also sent agents working to exploit discontent and forment revolutoin among the enemy. The British sponsored the Arab Revolt through Lawernce of Arabia (which eventually lead to the creation of the nation of Saudi Arabia), Germany backed Irish Independance with arms for the Easter Rising (which lead directly to the birth of Shin Fenn and the Irish Republican Army or I.R.A.), and by funding Lenin's Russian coup d'etat in 1917 (An act that had profound conciquences for the rest of the 20th century). Revolution became a weapon of war, a way to hit the enemy from within. When Lenin pulled Russia out of the war, it vindicated all Germany's efforts to use subversion. Now half a million German soldiers were released for the Western Front

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• Russian Revolution
• WWI
• World War I
• Lenin
• Lawernce of Arabia
• Easter Rising
• I.R.A.
• Western Front
• WW1
• World War 1
• world war 1