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The Brest Peace Treaty is a separate peace treaty ...
The Brest Peace Treaty is a separate peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918 in the city of Brest-Litovsk by representatives of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, which ensured the withdrawal of the RSFSR from the First World War. The conclusion of the treaty was preceded by an armistice agreement on the Eastern Front and a peace conference, which took place in three stages from December 22, 1917. On February 10, 1918, after the Central Powers concluded a separate treaty with representatives of the Ukrainian Rada, the Soviet delegates, headed by Leon Trotsky, announced the end of the war and at the same time the refusal to conclude peace ("no war, no peace" tactics). After the start of a new German offensive on Petrograd, V. Lenin, who initially advocated the immediate signing of the agreement, managed to convince his party members of the need to accept the German conditions. The third three-day stage of negotiations was characterized by the refusal of the Soviet delegation to enter into the discussion and ended with the signing of an agreement, which was ratified on March 15 by the delegates of the IV All-Russian Congress of Soviets; On August 27, an additional bilateral agreement was signed between the German Empire and the RSFSR. The fact of the conclusion of a separate peace and the terms of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty caused a sharp reaction both among the internal Russian opposition to the Bolsheviks and in the international arena, causing an increase in the intensity of the Civil War. The treaty was canceled by the decision of the Soviet All-Russian Central Executive Committee of November 13, 1918 against the backdrop of revolutionary events in Germany.