Talk:Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

message: Was Poland mentioned in the Treaty??? At the beginning it says it was NOT but later in the article the Terms section contradicts saying it IS. Someone please clarify.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.239.25.20 (talk) 10:47, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the treaty, it appears that Poland is only indirectly mentioned: "The territories lying to the west of the line agreed upon by the contracting parties which formerly belonged to Russia, will no longer be subject to Russian sovereignty."  So Russia lost sovereignty over Congress Poland, but Poland was not specifically mentioned. john k (talk) 13:37, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Poland

message: There are no mentioning of the delegates of the Ottoman Empire in the negotiations. It gives an unbalanced impression. --Xact (talk) 08:21, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Ottoman Empire

message: There is no caption for the second picture down from the top. 21:16, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: There is no caption for the second picture down from the top. 21:16, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I have resolved the lack of citations for the most part. How do I get the yellow warning removed from the top of the screen? Koniglich (talk) 02:44, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Warning 

message: This is nonsense, right?  I can't find any evidence for this gentleman's existence, and he's not even mentioned in this article besides the intro.  Is he a trap to see if undergraduates are using this article as a source for IDs on exams?  (Very useful for me in grading exams, incidentally, but not a very good reason to include nonsense in the article.) john k (talk) 03:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrik Fuller 

message: The following sentence was removed: "In any event, Germany's treaty with the Bolsheviks spurred Allied efforts to win the war".
What is meant by "spurred Allied efforts to win the war"? It implies that the allied powers weren't already doing all they could to win the war.
By 1918 the Allied powers had had both their economy and population mobilized for war for almost 4 years.
If it were possible to elaborate what practical difference was created by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on the Allied War effort then I would agree to the return of this sentence.King <Ref> (talk) 00:01, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the sentence is not very technical, but it was probably meant more as a colorful way of looking at the pressure the Allies must've felt. However, the many reasons for the victory such as the increased amount of U.S. troops leads me to agree not to have a sentence like that. Just saying for anyone else who like me might have liked the poetic feel it has.Cornelius (talk) 08:17, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Sentence removal

message: The "background" section was completely out there. It was not covering the background of the Treaty, which is covered below instead. It presended the whole Russian Revolution as a German plot, and was terribly worded. Just think about it: "extraordinary event happened in Imperial Russia—Czar Nicholas II abdicated" - sounds like if there was no February Revolution at all, and Tzar just retired for no reason! The section implied the war was losing popularity only due to German propaganda pamphletes - like if February Revolution was not sparked by the hardships of war already. It presented Germany as desperate "seeking to gain an upper hand" in Eastern Front with use of coup d'etait, like if Germany didn't just turn 1917 Kerensky Offensive into the catastrophe for Russian army. And it directly was calling Vladimir Lenin a "Germans weapon", rather than a leader of Bolshevik Revolution. Quite a usual wording for a neo-monarchist pamphlete, but we're in an encylopedia, I presume.Garret Beaumain (talk) 12:23, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "Background"

message: Here are maps that show the borders drawn up in Brest-Litovsk: , , 
The current map is not related to the treaty and shows the territory that was occupied by Central Powers until the end of war. --Arturius001 (talk) 08:05, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes you are right. Unfortunately Wikipedia is a bit strict with copyright, so we can't use your linked maps directly. However we do have this image which matches your linked maps, but it is in Spanish I believe. However is permitted to modify existing Wikipedia images, so this image could be copied, translated and then upload, then we could use it in this article. --Nug (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

text: If the maps are from a pre-1923 released book then I think it would be okay to upload as they would now be public domain, as long as you can provide details of the books the image came from. You can use Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard to fill in the relevant details. --Nug (talk) 20:28, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

text: Brilliant! I've updated the article with your uploaded map. --Nug (talk) 18:14, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: It is as if large parts are plagiarized from poorly written military history sources.
For example, take this:
"Thus the new Soviet government agreed to terms worse than those they had previously rejected."
Nowhere in the previous paragraphs was it mentioned that the Soviet government rejected the terms. In fact the previous paragraphs indicate that the government unilaterally withdrew from the war with Germany, and that the "Left Communists" did not want to end the war. Am I understanding this correctly? --Agamemnus (talk) 09:14, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is a lot of ambiguity in this article of historically significant events. 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: pages moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:29, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
=== Requested move 4 December 2017 (contd.) ===
The treaty with Ukraine was doubtless important to Ukraine. However, the treaty with Russia was of world-historical significance and is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. I endorse the decisions which have been made. (I'm only saying this in case a similar WP:RM or WP:MOVE is made again, just getting my vote in early.) Narky Blert (talk) 03:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 4 December 2017 

message: The treaty with Ukraine was doubtless important to Ukraine. However, the treaty with Russia was of world-historical significance and is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. I endorse the decisions which have been made. (I'm only saying this in case a similar WP:RM or WP:MOVE is made again, just getting my vote in early.) Narky Blert (talk) 03:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 4 December 2017 (contd.) 

message: The Appendix to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 3 includes many references to Russia and Germany (and other participants) granting each other the "most favoured nation" status in economical relations. See: https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Including_Appendices:_Russia-Germany,_Part_I
I wonder how this conforms with the "harsh treaty" as compared to Versailles, and wether this should be mentioned in the article. Is there any publication on this treaty that considers these passages? ASchudak (talk) 12:54, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  most favored nation 

message: Should there be a translation of the text?Cornelius (talk) 08:19, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: In the following paragraph the piece about schools seems a bit vague. Is it sourced ?:
          "As a result of the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia's commitments to the Allies and eleven nations became independent in eastern Europe and western Asia.  Under the treaty Russia lost nearly all of the Ukraine, and the three Baltic Republics were ceded to Germany. However, it was never recognized by the Western Powers, and never taught in public schools".
I take it "public schools" is used in the US rather than the British sense,which is fair enough; it's  more accurate. But where are the schools Lord Milner refers to; USA,Russia,Poland ,Germany? and at what level,in what context or what time? I cannot imagine even in the USSR of the 1930s, children were still taught that Russia controlled most of Poland. I studied world history in the 20th century in a British "state school" in the late 1960s/early 1970s and we certainly learnt about the treaty and its broad terms,although we did not read the text of the treaty, just as we learnt about the rise of Hitler and the New Deal in the US.Spinney Hill (talk) 22:58, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: Articles: "Under the treaty, Russia lost nearly all of Ukraine, Russia also lost its three Baltic republics such as Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (so called Baltic governorates in Russian Empire), and these three Baltic republics..."
Lithuania was not a Baltic governorate. The three Baltic governorates were Estonia, Livonia, and Courland, corresponding closely to the territory of modern Estonia and Latvia. Lithuania was in the Western Krai, mostly in the Kovno Governorate.
It is also incorrect to refer to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as the "Baltic republics" in March 1918, the time of the treaty. They were territories of the Russian Soviet Republic (later, the Russian SFSR). They only became independent states and republics later. 72.74.109.15 (talk) 22:16, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baltic governorate mistake; Baltic republics usage