Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 1

When was this treaty signed

Answer 1

22 December 1917

Question 2

What was the treaty about?

Answer 2

Bolsheviks offered immediate peace without annexations and without indemnities

Question 3

What were the arguments against this treaty?

Answer 3

Lenin’s faction: peace at any price
The Communists: favour of a revolutionary war, since their goal was world revolution
Trotsky’s faction: state of neither war or peace (demobilisation of army but refusal to sign an unacceptable agreement

Question 4

What happened after this treaty was signed?

Answer 4

10 Feb 1918: Trotsky announced that Russia would end the war but would not sign the treaty
18 Feb 1918: The Germans resumed the offensive
3 Mar 1918: Soviet delegates signed the treaty as Lenin threatened to resign

Question 5

What were Russia reparations

Answer 5

Territory: lost Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and Ukraine. Land was given to Turkey, cutting Russia off from the Black Sea
Economic: Six thousand million marks
Population: 30%
Industrial: 32% agricultural land, 85% sugar beet land, 54% industrial undertakings, 89% coal mines

Question 6

the impacts

Answer 6

it gave the Soviet government from international conflict which it needed to consolidate