Word: brest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final period in his life was devoted to consolidating the revolution. He was first entrusted with the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, being later succeeded there by Leon Trotsky. He then was appointed first Soviet Ambassador to Berlin, whence twelve years before he had been expelled. His activities in preparing the way for the German revolution, however, forced the Imperial Government to hand him his passports. He returned home to become Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
...later, and he made his way without further molestation to his native land, where he joined Lenin. In September, 1917, he was elected President of the Petrograd (Leningrad) Soviet; and the next year, as the first Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he conducted the peace negotiations for the Russians at Brest-Litovsk. He refused to sign the treaty that the Germans drew up, resigned and became Commissar for War, in whiqh capacity he organized the Red Army, now said to be the largest in the world...
When the first Bolshevist government was formed in November, 1917, M. Trotzky became the first Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he represented Russia at the Brest-Litovsk peace conference with Germany. He at first refused the German terms, but the continued advance of German troops into the heart of Russia eventually forced the Bolsheviki to sign far worse terms of peace. M. Trotzky agreed to the necessity of ending hostilities, and handed over his portfolio of Foreign Affairs to become Commissar of War, in which capacity he organized the Red Army...
...outbreak of the World War he was a Commander on the Wilmington. The following year he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy, which post he left in 1918 to become District Commander at Brest, France. Later the same year he was sent as a U. S. representative to the Prisoner of War Conference at Berne, Switzerland...
...stirring the people up to the point of seizing the power in November 1917, and in arresting all members of the Kerensky government except Kerensky himself. He was forced to leave Russia, and Lenin took over the reins of government. Soon after the new regime concluded the Peace of Brest-Litavsk...