When Did the First World War End for Russia? Marking the Centenary of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
... was nothing more than one of the stages which the Bolsheviks had to pass through on the road to the socialist future. Thus, the formation of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (RKKA) by a decree on February 23, 1918 was regarded as part of the history of the Civil War, even though these events were linked with the Germans’ attack on Pskov. RIAC Project Russian Diplomacy in Emigration: Challenging the October Revolution The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in the White émigré historical narrative Another alternative narrative regarding the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the end of the First World War is associated with the émigré historiographical tradition....