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| | TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK FACTS AND INFORMATION |
 | | The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace_treaty signed on March_3, 1918, at Brest, formerly "Brest-Litovsk", between Russia and the Central_Powers, marking Russia's exit from World_War_I. |
 | | The treaty, signed between Bolshevist_Russia on the one side and the German_Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey (Ottoman_Empire) (collectively the Central_Powers) on the other, marked Russia's final withdrawal from World_War_I as an enemy of her co-signatories, fulfilling on unexpectedly humiliating terms a major goal of the Bolshevik_revolution of November_7, 1917. |
 | | Russia's new Bolshevik (communist) government renounced all claim to Finland, the future Baltic_states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and the Turkish districts of Erdehan, Kars, and the Georgian district of Batumi. |
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