Russia’s new revolutionary socialist leaders agreed an armistice with the Central Powers on 15 December 1917, suspending the Great War on the Eastern Front.
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100 Years Ago: War resumes on the Eastern Front
The Central Powers drove towards Russia on 18 February 1918, following the breakdown of peace talks with the new revolutionary government.
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100 Years Ago: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia’s First World War involvement formally ended on 3 March 1918 with acceptance of tough peace terms at German headquarters on the Eastern Front.
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100 Years Ago: Revolutionaries kill Russian royal family
Nicholas II – last Tsar of Russia and the first of Europe’s imperial rulers toppled in WW1 – was killed, together with his family, by Bolshevik revolutionaries on 17 July 1918.
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