War Minister Kerensky
announces the beginning of the Russian summer offensive, as promised to her
allies in the Entente and to the interests who were bankrolling the Russian war
effort. But the announcement was something of an exaggeration. Only on the
Southwestern Front, facing Galicia in southern Poland, did the command have the
troops ready to attack. On three other fronts, as we’ll see, things weren’t
ready for another three weeks. Thus, even though the Southwestern Front would advance some 20 miles in the days to come, the military advantages of a
coordinated attack were lost.
The beginning of
the offensive coincided with another event, the June Demonstration, described
in a separate entry.
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