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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I.
On March 3 the Soviet government accepted a treaty by which Russia lost Ukraine, its Polish and Baltic territories, and Finland. (Ukraine was recovered in 1919, during the Russian Civil War.) The treaty was ratified by the Congress of Soviets on March 15.
In the brutal winter of 1918, as World War I raged on, one nation stumbled toward an uncertain future. Russia, which had been crippled by years of warfare and revolution, found itself on the brink of collapse. The communist political party known as the Bolsheviks were fresh from their victory in the October Revolution but faced an impossible decision: continue a war that was tearing their ...
9 lis 2009 · On March 3, 1918, in the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire,...
On 3 March 1918, following the breakdown of the talks and a new German offensive, Lenin accepted the “dictated peace” that deprived Russia of eighteen provinces and nearly 30 percent of its pre-war population.
On March 3, 1918, in the town of Brest-Litovsk (southwest of present-day Belarus), a peace treaty was concluded between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers comprising Germany, Austro-Hungary,...
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was the peace agreement that formally ended Russia’s involvement in World War I, signed in the Polish city of the same name on March 3rd 1918. The path to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a bumpy one, filled with demands, delays and divided opinions.
