11-23-2013, 05:37 PM
The first action of Lenin was the most urgent one: To sue for peace with the Central Powers
War "Minister" Trotsky started the negotiations reaching an armistice in December 1917, but stalled the oponents hoping that revolution would spread in Germany and Austria (sure, revolutions toppled the kaiser and Austria was on the verge of disintegration, but never bolsheviks could take power anywhere else)
As a response, Austro-German forces launched Operation Faustschlag, which saw the rapid advance of Central Powers armies into Ukraine, capturing Kiev in March 2, 1918
Finally, Bolsheviks took the harsh demands and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, on March 3 1918, when the situation was like this
![[Image: Armisticebrestlitovsk_crop.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Armisticebrestlitovsk_crop.jpg)
War "Minister" Trotsky started the negotiations reaching an armistice in December 1917, but stalled the oponents hoping that revolution would spread in Germany and Austria (sure, revolutions toppled the kaiser and Austria was on the verge of disintegration, but never bolsheviks could take power anywhere else)
As a response, Austro-German forces launched Operation Faustschlag, which saw the rapid advance of Central Powers armies into Ukraine, capturing Kiev in March 2, 1918
Finally, Bolsheviks took the harsh demands and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, on March 3 1918, when the situation was like this
![[-]](https://gayspeak.com/images/duende_v3_local/collapse.png)
