This is a worthy sequel to the author's biography of Hindenburg -- "Wooden Titan." It is particularly timely in view of Nazi Germany's alleged designs for eastward expansion much along the lines laid ...

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was negotiated and signed by the so-called Central Powers — the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires — and Soviet Russia.

The treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Wikimedia. Public domain.An encircled army has few viable options: it can sue for peace and suffer humiliating terms. It can fight with all its strength and suffer ...

At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian ...

On March 3, 1918, the Bolshevik government accepted a treaty with the Central Powers signed at Brest-Litovsk, which is modern-day Belarus, concluding hostilities between those countries.

The Germans expected to recover some of the costs of the war through the advantages they acquired in the East. These expectations were written into their Treaty of Peace with the Ukrainian Peoples' ...

The defining event of that era was not the Treaty of Versailles, but the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk — the separate peace agreed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central ...

The papers also include strong criticisms of the "shameful" Brest-Litovsk treaty which ended Russia 's participation in World War One and forced it to lose control of Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, its ...

The punitive Treaty of Brest-Litovsk forced Moscow to cede a vast swath of territory stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The Allied governments regarded Russia’s withdrawal as a betrayal.