The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Lenin's Peace That Cost Russia

In this episode of The Russian Revolution: How the Tsars Lost Everything, Lucas and Luna explore the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk—the separate peace that took Bolshevik Russia out of World War I at a staggering cost. Learn how Leon Trotsky's 'no war, no peace' strategy backfired, why Lenin overruled his own party to accept Germany's draconian terms, and what it meant for Ukraine, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. Discover the figure of Adolf Joffe, the chief negotiator, and how the treaty sowed the seeds of future conflict. Lucas explains the internal Bolshevik debate between Bukharin's revolutionary war faction and Lenin's pragmatists, and why the treaty was a desperate gamble that ultimately bought time for the Soviet state. This episode covers a crucial turning point that allowed Lenin to consolidate power but at the price of a third of Russia's territory and population.

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