treaty of Brest-litovsk

• when was decree of peace declared

  23rd October 1917
• lost Poland, estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia and Finland to Germany
• Russia's losses:

  • 1/3 of agricultural land
  • 1/3 of all the railway track
  • 1/3 of the population of the soviet republic
  • 2/3 of coalminers
  • 1/2 of heavy industry
  • nearly all available oil production
  • most cotton textile production
• why did Lenin accept such a harsh treaty 


  russia couldn't continue to fight in the war and if germany lost they would gain back the land