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RUSSIA'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR
By
COLONEL C. M. SHUMSKY-SOLOMONOV
PUBLISHED BY THE
Russian Information Bureau in the U. S.
WOOLWORTH BUILDING
NEW YORK CITY
by
Russian Information Bureau
New York
Introduction
The author of this pamphlet, Colonel C. M. Shumsky-Solomonov,is an officer of the Russian Army, a distinguishedsoldier and an authority on military problems. Col. Shumsky-Solomonovwas one of the defenders of Port Arthur duringthe Russo-Japanese War, and as a military expert of thePetrograd daily, "Birjeviya Viedomosti", he was well known notonly in Russia but also throughout Europe.
The purpose of this pamphlet is to present Russia's part inthe recent War. Russia at present lies in seas of blood andtears because of her enormous sacrifices in the struggle againstPrussian militarism. The nightmare of Bolshevism was able toovertake Russia because she was exhausted by three years ofactive participation in the War, during which her casualtiesreached 12,000,000, and her economic life became overstrainedand partially destroyed. Russia's present pitiful condition is theresult of her self-sacrificing services to humanity.
According to the data quoted by Col. Shumsky-Solomonov, ofthe 12,000,000 Russian casualties in the recent War, not less than3,000,000 were in dead. "Russia's losses," says Col. Shumsky-Solomonov,"are more than twice those of France, four-five timesthose of England, and more than thirty-five times those ofAmerica. Russia's losses are more than twice the total strengthof the British Army, and three-four times all the forces musteredby the United States. The number of Russia's casualties islarger than the total population of any of the following Europeancountries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium,Holland or the Balkan States."
If Russia had not sacrificed 3,000,000 of her best youth, nowsleeping on the battle-fields of Europe, a Prussian bayonet wouldnow be ruling the world. As Col. Shumsky-Solomonov pointsout, the great role played by Russia in the recent struggle "becameapparent at the very beginning of the War, in the importantaid she rendered in frustrating the initial and most dangerous[4]plan of the Germans, by her early offensive in aid of the Allies.Russia, having diverted against herself the entire Austrianarmy and part of the German, at the time of the battle onthe Marne, through h