In 1917, Russia established the Soviet Republic. Soon, Lenin put forward a peace proposal without cession of land and without reparations to the countries participating in the first world. Lenin's proposal was rejected by Britain, France, the United States, and other countries, and Britain, France, and the United States warned Lenin that if he withdrew from the war, he would face a series of retaliations.
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The Soviet government of 1917 was established with the oppression of the Allied armies on the outside, the landlord class and the bourgeoisie stirring up trouble. Since joining the First World War, the economy of Tsarist Russia has been depressed and the people have not made a living. The Russian bourgeoisie, with the help of the Bolsheviks, overthrew Tsarist rule and established a provisional government of a bourgeois character, but the provisional government, despite the opposition of the people, launched a large-scale offensive on the front line, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. In November 1917, the Bolshevik Party, under the command of Lenin, overthrew the bourgeois Provisional Government and established a Soviet government. At the same time, the Soviet government was still facing Russia, which was troubled internally and externally, and in order to concentrate its efforts on solving domestic problems, Lenin began to negotiate an armistice with Germany, but because the cost of the armistice was too high, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union had two completely different proposals for an armistice. In the face of this situation, Lenin vigorously defied the consensus of the people and insisted on making peace with Germany.
On March 3, 1919, the Soviets and Germany, two rivals who had been incompatible with each other, sat at the negotiating table because of some of their circumstances and signed the Treaty of Brest, which was extremely harsh on the Soviets. The contents of the peace treaty mainly include: ceding more than 100 kilometers of land to Germany, paying 6 billion marks to Germany... Wait a minute.
The Brest Pact was the first unequal treaty signed by the Soviet Union since the October Revolution. The Treaty of Brest, although it brought considerable losses to Russia, provided time for the consolidation of Soviet power. The day after the end of the First World War, The Soviet Union declared the contract void and recovered all the benefits it had lost. This was a successful diplomacy between Soviet Russia and time for space. It made full use of international contradictions, gave the nascent Soviet Russia time to consolidate its political power, and created favorable conditions for the subsequent maintenance of political power. Moreover, as a result of the success of this diplomatic strategy, Lenin's personal prestige also reached its peak.