In March 1918, in an effort to reform and modernise the Russian Empire (1721–1917) into a soviet republic, the Bolshevik government agreed to the strategically onerous territorial cessions stipulated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (33% of arable land, 30% of industry, and 90% of the coal mines of Russia). As a result, Russia yielded to Germany much of the arable land of European Russia, the Baltic governorates, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Caucasus region.Spartacus Educational: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk . Despite such an extensive geopolitical victory, tactical defeat in the Western Front, strategic over-extension, and factional division in government compelled Imperial Germany to abandon the Eastern European gained with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in favour of the peace-terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), and yielded those Russian lands to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine.
In March 1918 in an effort to reform and modernise the Russian Empire (1721–1917) into a soviet republic the Bolshevik government agreed to the strategically onerous territorial cessions stipulated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (33% of arable land 30% of industry and 90% of the coal mines of Russia) As a result Russia yielded to Germany much of the arable land of European Russia the Baltic governorates Belarus Ukraine and the Caucasus regionSpartacus Educational Treaty of Brest-Litovsk  Despite such an extensive geopolitical victory tactical defeat in the Western Front strategic over-extension and factional division in government compelled Imperial Germany to abandon the Eastern European gained with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in favour of the peace-terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) and yielded those Russian lands to Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland and Ukraine