Question

the bolsheviks were able to begin consolidating their power in russia by negotiating a separate peace with the germans and ending their involvement in the first world war with the treaty of

Answer 1

Treaties of Brest-Litovsk

Context: in order to pull russia out of the Great War, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin would meet with German diplomats from the German Empire and sign a peace treaty, ending all hostilities between Russia and Germany. This also led to German soldiers being pulled from the eastern front to focus on the Western Front in its fight against the rest of the Allied Powers, Britain, France and soon the U.S.