When Did the First World War End for Russia? Marking the Centenary of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

... war). The Germans ended up in possession of major Ukrainian reserves of iron ore and manganese, which were very important to Germany in the context of the continuing war of attrition. But what was the peace of Brest-Litovsk, and did it mark the conclusion ... ... we encounter two key historical narratives based primarily on differing attitudes to the events of the First World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War. It is not so much a matter of academic discourse as of historical memory, constructed ...