HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Why did Lenin sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany?
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The Bolsheviks forced him to sign the treaty.
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Russia defeated Germany in World War I
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Lenin had promised that Russia would pull out of the war.
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Russia lost World War I to Germany
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Brest-Litovsk signed. With the Soviet regime at risk of capitulation, Bolsheviks negotiators signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3rd 1918. Lenin got his own way by arguing that any losses – a nation on the “doorstep of socialist revolution” – would be rendered temporary by the advent of socialism in Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did Lenin sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? He wanted nothing to do with the war but hoped to carry out his revolution. → Lenin thought that Russia had lost the war with Germany and that the only realistic goal was peace at any price.
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