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Today on the big interview, we speak to Professor Jonathan Boff, Professor of Military History

at the University of Birmingham, and an expert in the First World War.

Jonathan, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you very much indeed. It's great to be here.

Now, of course, we're going to go on to discuss the current war in Ukraine, but to get a little bit of insight into that and to give us some context,

can you tell us a little bit about the Russian army and the First World War and how it ultimately

collapsed in 1917? Of course. Well, I mean, one of the really fascinating things about the Russian

army in the First World War is that before the war started, everyone was rather scared of it,

particularly the Germans. Indeed, one of the reasons why Germany went to war was because

they were scared that the rearmament process that the Russians had underway in the wake of the

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