This article re-evaluates the strategic importance of the Russo-Ottoman conflict in tsarist Russia’s Great War between 1914 and the February Revolution, and by extension in the First World War as a whole. Encompassing the Ottoman closure of the Turkish Straits from 1914 and the associated Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16, it argues that this conflict broadly defined had a crippling impact on the logistics of tsarist Russia’s entire war effort that was out of all proportion to the perception of it as a sideshow. These problems and their impacts are identified and assessed through an analysis of the principal Russian railway traffic flows that were associated directly with the Russo-Ottoman conflict. Archival data are used to help inform a brief counterfactual discussion of how the removal of these problems through an Allied victory in the Gallipoli campaign or a separate peace with the Ottoman Empire would have created important opportunities to ease the pressure on the Russian railways substantially. In reality, the Russo-Ottoman war continued to disrupt the transport system, severely harming the war economy and thus helping to make more likely the implosion of the tsarist war effort that ultimately occurred in the form of the February Revolution.

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1914-1917 年俄罗斯帝国大战中土耳其海峡、俄罗斯-奥斯曼战争和加里波利战役的后勤意义

本文重新评估了俄罗斯 - 奥斯曼帝国冲突在 1914 年和二月革命之间的沙皇俄国大战以及整个第一次世界大战中的战略重要性。包括 1914 年奥斯曼帝国关闭土耳其海峡和 1915-16 年相关的加里波利战役，它认为这场广义上的冲突对沙皇俄罗斯整个战争努力的后勤产生了严重影响，这与人们的看法不相称。它作为一个杂耍。通过对与俄罗斯-奥斯曼帝国冲突直接相关的俄罗斯主要铁路交通流量的分析，确定并评估了这些问题及其影响。档案数据用于帮助进行简短的反事实讨论，以了解如何通过盟军在加里波利战役中的胜利或与奥斯曼帝国的单独和平来消除这些问题，将创造重要的机会，从而大大减轻俄罗斯铁路的压力。实际上，俄罗斯与奥斯曼帝国的战争继续扰乱交通系统，严重损害战争经济，从而更有可能使最终以二月革命形式发生的沙皇战争努力内爆。