Slitherine

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3.3.2. Difficulty Level
There are five general difficulty levels, Easy, Normal, Challenging, Hard and Impossible. The difficulty level is set by varying the percentage of five different factors; morale, fortification building speed, supply, transport, and administrative points (3.3.3). Using the format xxx/xxx, where the first number is the human player and the second number is the computer player, Easy difficulty level has all values set to 120/80, Normal has all values set to 100/100, Challenging has all values set to 90/110, Hard has all values set to 80/125, and Impossible has all values set to 70/150. Players can generate a custom difficulty level by manually setting any of the factors for either side. The default setting is Normal.
Whenever the morale level is set to 110 or greater, then leader admin checks for movement allowances are always successful (14.1.2) and the Soviet AI is able to build combat units so as to maintain a force of 300 divisions and 100 brigades at no additional admin cost (12.2.4). In addition, whenever the morale level is set to 125 or greater, all leader initiative checks for movement allowances points are also automatically successful.

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ORIGINAL: Klydon
IMO, the two biggest for the Russians are the moral and admin point settings. For the Germans, the moral setting has a big impact as well.

If you are playing against the Russian AI and are over the 110 admin setting, they basically get unlimited admin points. This means armies will pop up out of nowhere and when it comes time to be able to upgrade into corps, the entire front will suddenly have a pile of infantry corps from one end to the other.