Advertising postcard map of European Russia, with inset images of a mounted Cossack lancer, a troika, and St. Petersburg.
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"The spring and summer of 1918 were unusually hard. All the aftermath of the war was then just beginning to make itself felt. At times, it seemed as if everything were slipping and crumbling, as if there were nothing to hold to, nothing to lean upon. One wondered if a country so despairing, so economically exhausted, so devastated, had enough sap left in it to support a new régime and preserve its independence. There was no food. There was no army. The railroads were completely disorganized. The machinery of state was just beginning to take shape. Conspiracies were being hatched everywhere."
Leon Trotsky writing of Russia in the spring and summer 1918. The Russian Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917, the armistice that quickly followed in December, and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed between Russia and the Central Powers in March all occurred as ethnic groups within Russia and Europe's remaining empires increasingly called for independence. Trotsky continues: 'In the West, the Germans occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, White Russia and a large section of Great Russia.' Ukraine had declared independence, French and British troops were in Murmansk and Archangel, the Czech Legion — former Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war — had crossed Russia and taken Vladivostok on the Pacific, and anti-revolutionary leaders were battling Russia's new government.
My Life: an Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky, page 395, publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., publication date: 2007
1918-07-06, 1918, July, Russia, Archangel
