BRUSILOV, ALEKSEY ALEKSEYEVICH

əlyĭksyāˈ əlyĭksyāˈəvĭch broosēˈləf, 1853–1926, Russian general. As a commander in World War I, he won victories in Galicia. In 1916 he organized the Russian offensive against Austria, which relieved the pressure on the Allies. The offensive, successful at first, cost Russia at least a million lives. Brusilov was briefly commander in chief under the Kerensky provisional government set up after the Russian Revolution (1917), and in 1920 he joined the Soviet army's staff in directing the war against Poland.

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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
Brusilov, Aleksey Alekseyevich 1853-1925 , general, the most successful Russian commander of...Bolshevik seizure of power. During the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 Brusilov appealed to all Russian officers to join the Red Army. See his...
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
Book by Michael T. Florinsky; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Encyclopedias
...part in the decoration of the St. Isaac Cathedral. From 1849 to 1864, he was curator of the Hermitage. BRUSILOV, Aleksey Alekseyevich 1853-1926 , general, who distinguished himself as a cavalry officer in the Russo-Turkish war. By 1914...


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Brusilov, Aleksey Alekseyevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BRUSILOV, ALEKSEY ALEKSEYEVICH lyiksya lyiksya vich broose l f, 1853 1926, Russian general...successful at first, cost Russia at least a million lives. Brusilov was briefly commander in chief under the Kerensky provisional government...


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