... the burning Brest-Litovsk Fortress in the background.   THE BREST PEACE TREATY The Russian people were exhausted by the long and bloody war. After the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 Russia became a state of Soviets. The new government tried to stop that war, adopting the Decree on Peace on November 8, 1917. According to it, the Soviet Russia suggested to impose immediately a truce and begin ... peace negotiations. But the Allies did not support Russia. The armistice negotiations started in Brest-Litovsk in December, 1917. They were held between ... , Russia withdrew from the war,...

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... "The Indomitable". But, after he was arrested in Batum and sent to exile in Siberia in 1903 he changed his name to Stalin, "Man of Steel". His path of being arrested and escaping continued till 1917. In 1905, during the Russian revolution Stalin started getting himself noticed. He was a party-organizer in Tiflis and wrote for the Caucasian Workers' Newssheet. Stalin expressed himself in his ... articles in a very outspoken, opinionated way - which gained him attention. He helped to organize robberies of government transports in Georgia to provide the Bolsheviks with money. In 1907, he ....

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... . He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. He would continue to read other books, including the works of F. Engels and V. I. Lenin. In 1899 Stalin dropped out (other sources say he was expelled) of the Tbilisi Theological Seminary to become a full time revolutionary. His career in the Social Democratic party began ... revolution. Then in 1902, he was arrested and spent over a year in prison. He was later exiled to Siberia, but escaped in 1904. Stalin would continue a cycle of getting arres...

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... was a definite turning point for him in his life. Now the people of the Soviet Union knew he was and many of them understood his beliefs and wanted to be a part of what was only his little group at the time. After the Russian Revolution he was elected president of the St. Petersburg Soviet. He was arrested and deported several times to Siberia, both for these ... political activities. A good leader can't be afraid of the consequences of his actions, and Leon Trotsky wasn't. He showed all of the people in the Soviet Union how much he cared for his ... . However, it was when he and Lenin ...

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