"The disintegration and anarchy in the army continue. Measures are being taken to improve discipline and morale."

This is an important psychological detail about the Russian army. The army, by this time in the war, was made up mostly of conscripts, brought in from the peasant villages all over the vast continent. The peasants look up the the tsar as a father-figure. Old Father Tsar, he was called. After Tsat Nicholas was forced to abdicat, the army was left without a patriarch, and many, many deserted. In the cities, the special Guards and Cossacks that, throughout history, had protected the tsar- even they fell to rebellion as the mass hysteria of chaos swept through Moscow, what was by then Petrograd. People were starving because the trains were no longer bringing food and fuel into the large cities. All trains, if not held up by damaged or unfinished tracks, carried more soldiers to the front. And, when they had been dragged hundreds of miles from their home, the soldiers deserted. Very soon each side was to organize and turn against eachother. Russia's nation collapsed on itself toward the end of WWI, and became and bloodstained expanse of Reds and Whites.