Russia (Empires)

For the civilization in other games, see Russia.

Civilization	Bonuses and Unique Units	Strategy
Russia Civilization Traits Reissue Equipment Revolutionaries Communism Proletariat Russian Winter Epochs World War I World War II Advanced from China Korea Russia is a modern civilization playable in World War I and World War II in Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The Russians are based on the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, but their aesthetics are more based on the latter. Description A slow mobilization of the Russian army led to defeats at the start of World War I. The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 pulled Russia out of the Great War. By the 1920s, the USSR had formed. In 1941, Germany invaded and almost took Moscow. Over 20 million Soviets died in the Great Patriotic War, but the Red Army prevailed and captured Berlin in 1945. Overview The Russians have the following abilities inherit to their civilization: Reissue Equipment: When a soldier is killed or a weapon destroyed, equipment is scavenged and reissued to new recruits, thus recouping some of the cost of their loss. Production of new equipment was interrupted as factories were moved east away from the invading German army. The Russians salvaged and reused any functioning equipment they could get their hands on. Revolutionaries: Booby-trapped Russian revolutionaries, disguised as peasants, blow themselves up, doing widespread damage. In the Russian Civil War, revolutionary forces opposed to the Bolsheviks tried to assassinate Lenin himself in August 1918. Communism: Russian workers share the basics of life, thus reducing their cost in resources. As a political ideology, communism is a system where property is owned collectively by the members of a community. Proletariat: Russia starts with a large working class population. The Proletariat is the working class, people who make a living though physical labour, especially in industry. Russian Winter: To prepare for the cold Russian Winter, the fishing fleet and hunters are more productive than those of other civilizations. The Russian Winter is notoriously harsh. Napoleon's forces found that out in 1812, and Hitler rediscovered it in World War II. German supply lines were severely hampered by the weather and German troops were frozen, fatigued and near starvation. History Russia was allied with France against Germany at the start of World War I. As Europe plunged into war, the Allies fully expected the Russian “Steamroller” to surge to life and crush the opposition. But mobilization of the massive Russian army took time. That, coupled with some questionable leadership decisions, led to early setbacks. This in turn stirred up an already brewing dissatisfaction with the Tsarist government. Revolution broke out in early 1917 and Czar Nicholas II was deposed, ending 300 years of Romanov rule. Then, before the dust had settled, the Bolshevik Revolution threw the country into turmoil again. Russia managed to pull out of the Great War, but civil war soon erupted. The Bolsheviks won, and by the 1920s, the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics had been formed with Moscow as its capital. Josef Stalin took the reins of the Soviet Union in 1928 and led it through World War II. In August 1939, he agreed to a mutual Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler, which secretly divided Poland between them. Both sides soon invaded, and Poland fell under the onslaught. Then in 1941, Germany ignored the pact and invaded the Soviet Union, thus beginning the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army, decimated by Stalin's Great Purges of the 1930s, was forced to fall back. They finally stopped the German assault just outside Moscow, in part thanks to a harsh Russian winter. German forces renewed their advance the next year, but a heroic, if bloody, stand at Stalingrad forced them to retreat, signalling a turning point in the war. The Red Army began a long push to rid the Motherland of the invaders. At the same time, relocated Soviet factories started producing remarkable quantities of equipment, supplemented by materiel sent by Russia's western Allies. In the winter of 1944-45, the Red Army moved to the Polish border while further south they forced the Germans out of Romania and the Balkans. This two-pronged attack coupled with the arrival of massive reinforcements from the Russian interior finally had the desired effect: the race to Berlin was on. Soviet forces rolled through Poland, Hungary and then Austria, expelling German defenders as they went. In late April, the Red Army encircled Berlin and, within a week, Germany had surrendered. See also Soviet Union on Wikipedia Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on Wikipedia History of Russia (1892–1917) on Wikipedia History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) on Wikipedia