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| | Wikinfo | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The treaty was practically obsoleted before the end of the year but is significant as a chief contributor, although unintentionally, to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. |
 | | The treaty, signed between bolshevist Russia on the one side and the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey (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. |
 | | The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk marked a significant contraction of the territory held by the Bolsheviks: while the independence of Finland and Poland was already accepted in principle, the loss of Ukraine and the Baltic region created dangerous bases of anti-Bolshevik military activity in the subsequent Russian Civil War (1918-20). |
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