And if you are looking for a modern analogy to Brest-Litovsk, keep in mind that after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the West expropriated Ukraine and the Baltic states from the ...

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 ...

Peace negotiations without precedent in history begin near the city of Brest-Litovsk, not far from the front lines where a brief truce has gone into effect.

Codenamed Falcon Assault, the drills will run until July 19 at a training ground near the city of Brest. The southwest city, formerly known as Brest-Litovsk, is only 30 miles away from Ukraine.

Brest Litovsk meant handing over a great deal to German imperialism, but it didn't mean giving up state power.

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 ...

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 ...

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, to the consternation of ...

A detailed historical account and political analysis of the treaty that marked the official conclusion of the First World War on the Eastern Front, in which the author stridently advocates the ...

SYRIZA’s leadership claims that the putative dilemma between war and peace, or between exiting austerity and staying in the Euro, is not exhaustive. The third possibility is neither war nor peace.