Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

3 important questions on Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

What were the benefits of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in terms of consolidating power for the Bolsheviks?

  1. Gave the Bolsheviks some political breathing space
  2. Secured western border allowing troops to redeployed against emerging White forces in the south within only nominal detachments - 'screens - being deployed in the west

Why wasn't their further German attack against the Bolsheviks?

  1. Believed could deal with communism at a later date
  2. or that communism would implode under its own interanl contradition

What was the impact of the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk on foreign intervention on the side of the whites?

  1. Whilst the Bolsheviks could deploy their troops in solely fighting the Whites and the Greens
  2. Allied aim of intervention was mainly stop German advance rather than to undermine the Soviet Regime; this meant that the landing of foreign troops had little military impact on the civil war

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