Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Impact

• Bread rations in Petrograd fell to just 50 grams per day.
• The main wheat production area was lost.
• The transportation system was massively disrupted.
• June 1918

  • The Petrograd workforce had fallen by 60%.
  • The population of the city fell by a third from 3 million to 2 million.
• There was an attempted SR coup in Moscow in 1918.

  • By this point, Moscow had become the new capital.
• Two attempts on Lenin's life in July and August 1918.

  • 2 other Bolshevik bosses were assassinated.
• The SRs joined the Whites to oppose the Bolsheviks.