Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

History of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Peace of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918)

The following commentary about Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in the Churchill Era is produced by the Churchill College (Cambridge): Peace treaty between Germany and Bolshevik Russia signed on 3rd March 1918. Russia surrendered huge areas, including the Ukraine, the Caucasus, Finland and the Baltic States, and pulled out of the war.

Further Reading

F.L. Carsten, Revolution in Central Europe 1918–1919 (Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1973).
George F. Kennan, Russia Leaves the War (Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920, Vol. 1) (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1956).
Titus Komarnicki, Rebirth of the Polish Republic: A Study in the Diplomatic History of Europe, 1914–1920 (London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1957).
Randall Lesaffer and Mieke van der Linden, ‘Peace Treaties after World War I’, in Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012) vol. 8, 118–28.
Lauri Mälksoo, ‘Which Continuity: The Tartu Peace Treaty of 2 February 1920, the Estonian-Russian Border Treaties of 18 May 2005, and the Legal Debate about Estonia’s Status in International Law’, Archiv des Völkerrechts, 43 (2005) 513–24.
Zara Steiner, The Lights that Failed. European International History 1919–1933 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005).