Why did the Russians struggled

*INDUSTRIALIZATION came late and modernization was just starting. The things they used were more old fashion. As a result, the Russian army was continually short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, and blankets. *The RAILROAD network wasn’t very efficient so the front troops lacked of material. The allies tried to send supplies but because they had to come across the ottoman empire they didn’t let them cross and on the other side they had to come across the submarines of Germany so the supplies could almost never come. *The only asset that Russia had was its NUMBERS of soldiers. It had a huge population. The deaths of soldiers could easily be replaced Military aviation At the end of the war, there were many airplanes used. It was the first time there was a war up in the sky