Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...

Chapter Five - Trotsky and Brest-Litovsk Although Trotsky had supported Lenin against the opposition of Kamenev and Zinoviev on the need to organise an insurrection in October 1917 he was to find himself at loggerheads with him at the beginning of 1918 on the signing of a peace treaty with Germany. The way he acted on this question highlights both his strength and his weaknesses. (Cogito, page ...

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 Back to World War Two Chronology On November 7, 1918, after the fall of the Russian government of Alexander Kerensky, the new Soviet government resolved to make peace with the central Powers. On December 3, 1917, a conference between a Russian delegation, headed by Leon Trotsky and German and Austrian representatives began at Brest-Litovsk. Trotsky had the task of ...

Leon Trotsky's political biography of V.I.Lenin ...