HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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was good for Germany because it meant it only had to fight a one front war the rest of the war
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was good for the United States because it gave it a chance to get in the war
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was bad for the Russian economy because it did not have jobs for the displaced soldiers
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None of the above
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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: -Lenin, realizing that the new Soviet state was too weak to survive a continuation of the war, threatened to resign if the German terms were not met. On March 3 the Soviet government accepted a treaty by which Russia lost Ukraine, its Polish and Baltic territories, and Finland.
Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty that ended Russia’s participation in the First World War was signed on 3 March 1918.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) whereby Russia yielded large portions of its territory to Germany caused a breach between the Bolsheviks (Communists) and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, who thereupon left the coalition.