The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Executed

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was executed on this day in 1918, thereby officially ending Russia's participation in World War One.

 

And so Russia exited the war.   The several week interlude between the treaty in final form being proposed and the signature of the treaty had been caused by Trotsky's walking out of the conference, which committed the Central Powers to a renewed offensive which took massive amounts of Russian territory.  The pause was a Russian disaster, but it would be a German one too as they had to commit large numbers of troops to garrison what had been taken, and they committed themselves to a Eastern Front advance at the very time they should have used all available resources to built up in the West.