Better Performing Russia in World War One

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For supply, more and better run RRs. They had tons of ammo, and munitions sitting in warehouses, while the guns and men on the front didn't get their ordered/needed items. If they had more RR lines/cars and engines, and people who weren't mooks, running them. They could have had their troops at the front fighting at something close to 100% efficiency. This also would have allowed them to actually use their numbers pre 1916.
 
The POD cut-off is a little late for some stuff (for example the Futurist Manifeso has Rennenkampf and Samsonov as friends, from butterflies in the Russo-Japanese War).

Planning to hit East Prussia harder might just get the Germans (if they hear of it, see the build-up) to switch up all their plans which would suck for the Russians. Also the offence against A-H was wildly successful at the outset, altering it even a little means a lot more pain for the Russians there.

A lot of that stuff on the list can be accomplished with political changes (find a General who can do much of it, and have him win the Tsar's favour for whatever reason) that would be reasonably small.

A few more books:
A Military Atlas of the Great War by Arthur Banks.
Economics of World War I. Edited by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison.
The First World War by Hew Strachan.
 
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