WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine, Georgia and Finland; gave up Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Germany and Austria-Hungary; and ceded Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Turkey.

Detailed explanation-2: -The treaty marked Russia’s final withdrawal from World War I and resulted in Russia losing major territorial holdings. In the treaty, Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany; they were meant to become German vassal states under German princelings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Russia’s peace treaty with Germany that gave Germany a huge chunk of land and population. Because of this, the Russians were able to focus more on their revolution rather than the Great War. Who benefited the most from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? The Central Powers, especially Germany.

Detailed explanation-4: -The treaty marked Russia’s final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on severe terms. In all, the treaty took away territory that included a quarter of the population and the industry of the former Russian Empire and nine tenths of its coal mines.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.