WWI · TURNING POINT ·
Signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
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3 Mar 1918 — Trotsky’s “no war, no peace” fails; Germany simply advances until Lenin accepts everything: Russia signs away Poland, the Baltics, Finland and Ukraine — a third of its people, half its industry. The east is won. Now watch what Germany does with it.
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- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and WWI (chapter 11 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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- Russian Revolution
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