On March, 3, 1918 the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty was signed in the White Palace of Brest Fortress. According to it, Russia withdrew from the war, ceding an area 780 thousand square kilometers with ...

The defeat of Brest-Litovsk brought an end to the period of our first foreign policy, that of our open offensive against global imperialism. Until the revolutionary movement in Europe gains strength, ...

WHEN LENIN, writing in 1920, explained the Bolsheviks' decision to sign the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, he said it was a matter of handing over your wallet to bandits in order to escape without being ...

Brest-Litovsk also rewarded Germany’s allies, though more modestly: Austria-Hungary received part of Ukraine and a guarantee of Ukrainian food supplies, staving off starvation in the Dual ...

Brest-Litovsk, December 22: Peace negotiations begin between the Soviet government and the Central Powers. Peace negotiations without precedent in history begin near the city of Brest-Litovsk, ...

In March 1918, Vladimir Lenin’s Soviet government signed a separate peace with the Central Powers, taking Russia out of World War I. The punitive Treaty of Brest-Litovsk forced Moscow to cede a ...

Although his parallel is accurate, I prefer to compare the EU measures to the Brest-Litovsk treaty between Soviet Russia and Germany at the beginning of 1918, in which, ...

The Brest-Litovsk strategy, even if sufficiently elaborated, is not very likely to succeed. Moreover, the strategy taken by itself offers no long-term remedy for the Eurozone’s ills, ...

This is a worthy sequel to the author's biography of Hindenburg -- "Wooden Titan." It is particularly timely in view of Nazi Germany's alleged designs for eastward expansion much along the lines laid ...