Postcard celebrating the ceasefire on the Eastern Front. The troops are Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German. The flags are Austrian and Russian; the coat of arms and bunting German. Russia declared a ceasefire on December 15, 1917. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russia's involvement in the war, was signed on March 3, 1918 between Russia and the Central Powers.

Waffenstillstand im Osten

Ceasefire in the East



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Friday, March 23, 1917

". . . the Central Committee of the Soviet adopted the following motions:

1. Negotiations with the working-men of the enemy countries to be opened at once;

2. 'Systematic fraternization' between Russian and enemy soldiers at the front;

3. Democratization of the army;

4. All schemes of conquest to be abandoned."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from the entry for Saturday, March 24, 1917, from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia. The February revolution established two centers of power in Petrograd: the Russian Duma and the Petrograd Soviet, the former strongly supportive of continuing the war, the latter not. The Soviets were much more representative of workers and soldiers.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. III by Maurice Paléologue, page 268, publisher: George H. Doran Company

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1917-03-23, 1917, March, Soviet, soviet, fraternization, Operetta Trotsky