HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It concentrated the fighting on the Western Front
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It had no effect on the war
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It ended the war in Europe
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It created obstacles for German war strategy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The treaty was agreed upon by the Russians to stop further invasion. As a result of the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia’s commitments to the Allies and eleven nations became independent in eastern Europe and western Asia.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917–20, followed by decades of Communist rule.