Word: litovsk
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...Britain, France, Japan and the U.S.) during six months (March through August 1918) of diplomatic maneuverings leading up to joint troop landings on Russian soil. Author Kennan makes plain that the initial urge to intervene was based not on the Bolshevik but the German menace. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war and left the Germans free to mount what was to be their last massive offensive on the Western Front. The Allies also feared that the port of Murmansk and tens of thousands of tons of war supplies in Archangel and Vladivostok would fall into...
Czech Mates. The Brest-Litovsk treaty had stranded a Czechoslovak legion in the Ukraine. Before long, these displaced Czech soldiers were locked in combat with the Reds. Wilson believed that they were fighting against bands of German war prisoners who had rearmed themselves, and when he finally gave the order to intervene on July 6, 1918, the U.S. commitment was mainly limited to "aiding the Czechs against German and Austrian prisoners" and "guarding the military stores at Kola," a village near Murmansk. (There were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions...
When the Bolsheviks signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the peace treaty with the Germans in 1918, Steinberg said he and his fellow Socialist Revolutionaries determined to resign from the government...
Text by Lenin. Where Communists are concerned, it is sometimes instructive to listen to what they themselves say. Last week the Taegliche Rundschau, official organ of the Red army in Eastern Germany, recalled how Lenin had made peace with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk to give the Soviet land "a breathing space . . . to give it the chance of putting the economy in order, to take advantage of disputes within the imperialist camp...