February 1943
The objective of the Battle of Stalingrad was the Germans wanted to capture the town named after the Prime Minister of Russia and then cross the Volga river in order to continue their advance into Russia. The Germans lost the battle and the German VI Army was surrounded and surrendered. The Germans had to retreat in order to re-group. Stalingrad was where the Russians stopped the advance of the German army and they began to push them back out of Russia over the next year.
no, Russia entered the world war two because Germany broke the alliance between them (when the German Army invaded Russia)
Lenin's plan was called the "New Economic Policy."
He needed to consolidate his army.
The Germans actively facilitated Lenin's return to Russia in order to further destabilize Russia and make it pull out of the war. The first revolution in February, 1917 had toppled the Tsar and his regime, but much to the chagrin of Germany the revolutionaries continued the war against Germany with full force. The Germans gambled (rightly, as it was to turn out) that for Lenin to establish Bolshevik power and defeat his Russian adversaries, he would need peace with Germany. When Russia indeed did sue for peace, the Germans could then - as had been their intention behind the whole Lenin strategy all along - concentrate all their military power on the Western front and try to force the deadlock that had been existing there for years. They failed at that, however.
Iceland, Finland, Russia.
In Bastone, General Anthony McAuliff responded to the Germans' order to surrender with a one-word reply: "Nuts."
No. Russia was on the UK side.
The Germans were not allowed to station any troops in the Rhineland.
The economic loss in Russia and the revolution started in Russia caused Russia to withdraw from the war.
to gain a foothold in Europe in order to defeat the Germans
The first year it was a war of pushing the enemy and then being pushed back. The Germans pushed a little too much and had to retreat really fast, but they received the order not to retreat after the former German borders. So, they built trenches on elevated ground and waited for the allies. After that it was just hiding in the trenches, waiting for the next assault to come or to be announced. Most of the dead perished because of the bad hygiene, or just lucky potshots.