what was the impact of world war 1 on russia
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Huge human & material losses in mostly lost battles, economic crisis, a complicated many-sided civil war of appalling bloodiness, wars of independence fought by subject nations (some successfully, some not), foreign intervention, famine, pogroms, epidemics, mass slaughter of real & imagined political opponents by security services of various sides, & the flight of at least hundreds of thousands.
And of course, revolution.
By 1921 the total income of the territory within the boundaries of the post-war USSR was about 40% of its pre-war level. The population of the current territory of Russia is estimated to have dropped by 13 million between 1914 & 1920, & many more had died in what are now Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, & Poland.
Long-Term Population Statistics for Russia 1867-2002, Kazuhiro KUMO, Takako MORINAGA, And Yoshisada SHIDA, 2007.
Russia’s Home Front, 1914-1922: The Economy. Mark Harrison & Andrei Markevich, 2012.