This is a question in my homework I don't understand. It's from World History Modern Times California edition textbook.
2007-09-26 14:20:52 · 4 answers · asked by gooddan1992 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
He would accept anything to get Russia out of the war. That was his big offer to the Russian people. After the war, when others had defeated Germany, Trotsky led the Red Army in a campaign to reconquer Poland. which had been a province of the Russian empire, as a part of the new Red Russia. He got beat. Lenin's only aim was socialist revolution in one country (Russia), followed by the spread of communism throughout the world.
2007-09-26 14:31:02 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Russian army had collapsed, and there were no means left to mount a defense against the Germans and Austrians. It's sort of like asking a mugging victim why he handed over his wallet to the guy pointing a big gun at his head.
2016-05-19 04:05:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They needed to end the war at any cost to stay in power. They came to power because they were the only political movement fully comitted to ending the war and they knew it. Of course, when they saw the terms of the treaty even they had second thoughts, but they were in no position to ask for anything better from Germany.
2007-09-26 16:59:02 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Hammer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had a civil war on his hands in Russia and he was willing to do this to get peace with the Germans so he could concentrate the Red Army on fighting in Russia against the counter-revolutionaries/
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2007-09-26 18:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋