HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Collective Farms
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Gulag
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Duma
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World War One
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the treaty, Russia lost all of Ukraine and most of Belarus, as well as its three Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (so-called Baltic governorates in the Russian Empire), and these three regions became German vassal states under German princelings.
Detailed explanation-2: -treaties of Brest-Litovsk, peace treaties signed at Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus) by the Central Powers with the Ukrainian Republic (Feb. 9, 1918) and with Soviet Russia (March 3, 1918), which concluded hostilities between those countries during World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poland, which had long been divided among Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary, was reconstituted. Russian land yielded the new nations of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Russia and Austria-Hungary gave up additional territory to Poland and Romania.
Detailed explanation-4: -Russia withdrew from WW1 after a Bolshevik (Communist) coup in November 1917. Soon after that, the country was engulfed in the civil war, and the royal family was assassinated. Russia itself lost Poland and the Baltic States and changed its name from Russian Empire to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).