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...regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city...
...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...
...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...
...Britain made her trade agreement with Russia in March. Republican Germany denounced the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and made a more just peace with Russia in May. Other powers followed suit...