BREST-LITOVSK TREATY

a short-lived compact ending hostilities between Ru ia, as one of the Allies, and the Central Powers in the World War of 1914-18, signed at Brest-Litovsk, a town in Poland. The treaty was repudiated by the other allied powers and the armistice of November 11, 1918 annulled it. By its terms Ru ia ceded to Germany and her allies, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, approximately 400,000 square miles of territory containing a population of almost 6,000,000 and embracing Finland, EsRu ian Poland and the Ukraine. The Central Powers undertook that the future of these regions should be decided by them in agreement with the respective populations. Ru ia was to refrain from all agitation against the other signatory powers and not to interfere in any way with the internal affairs of the ceded districts. Ru ia promised to leave all Turkish she held, to give up Ru ian demobilize her army; evacuate all territory she had renounced, eace with the then Ukrainian ic, surrender her fleet to Germany, and remove ber mines from the and Black Seas as well as her tions on the Aland Islands. The also contained economic agree men which practically gave Germany of Ru ia's trade for an indefinite Germany undertook to evacuate Ru ian territory she held other the regions named as soon as a a between the Allies and the ower's was entered into. As turned out, the general peace. it came forced Germany out of altogether and destroyed her as a power.: Germany held Ru ia by the at the time the treaty was made. vici itudes of the Ru ian revolution ef 1917 brought the Bolshevists power who sought to end Ru ia’s in the war. An armistice was sign the Bolshevists and Germany on cember 15, 1917, and extended February 18, 1918, between a peace terms were discu ed. olshevists refused to concede terms demande d by Germany and allies, then announced a peace in own by simply declarin g that had withdrawn from the war signing any treaty. Germany by declaring that in the absence e treaty a state of war er armies already held great areas Ru ia and they resumed their in sweeping movements north and The new German invasion forced Bolshevists to announce their acceptance of the terms they had earlier Germany, however, went on ning the country, and captured prisoners, 2,400 guns, 800 locomotives, ‘and enormous stores of supplies munitions. She kept up her tions till the day on which the was signed, March 3, 1918. Thus had to yield the territory demanded or submit to having wrenched from her by conquest. bargain, as already indicated, vitiated by Germany’s defeat in World War.