Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia exits war
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was the 1918 peace agreement between Bolshevik Russia and the Central Powers, ending Russian participation in World War I.
Russia ceded vast territories—Finland, the Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine—in exchange for exiting a war the new revolutionary government could not sustain.
The treaty's harsh terms became moot when Germany lost the war months later.
- BelarusEastern European landlocked nation
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- FinlandScandinavian country, capital Helsinki
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
Leon Trotsky · Soviet Russia · Central Powers · Ukraine · Kaiser Wilhelm II · annexation · Russian Revolution · reparations · puppet states · Lenin · Red Army · Poland · self-determination · Russian Civil War · Austro-Hungarian Empire · German occupation · Vladimir Lenin · territorial disputes
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers
- Eastern FrontStalingrad, Kursk, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev
- Peace Treatiespeace accord, Peace of Westphalia, Camp David Accords, Oslo Accords, Geneva Accords
- Russian RevolutionRussian Revolution, February Revolution, Bolsheviks, October Revolution, Lenin
- treatiestreaties, peace treaties, alliances, diplomatic pacts, bilateral agreements
- WWI AgreementsParis Peace Conference
Treaty of Brest-LitovskMolotov-Ribbentrop Pact
1939 German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Treaty of Brest-LitovskTreaty of Versailles
1919 settlement ending WWI
Treaty of Brest-Litovskscorched earth policy
Destroying resources during withdrawal