Adolph Joffe
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Adolph Abramovich Joffe was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent.
Joffe in 1918
Joffe signing the 1920 Treaty of Tartu
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Russia and the Central Powers, by which Russia withdrew from World War I. The treaty, which followed months of ne
Adolph Joffe
…he supported Trotsky in the latter's refusal to sign a permanent peace treaty in February. Once the Bolshevik Central Committee decided to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 23 February 1918, Joffe remained a member of the Soviet delegation only under protest and in a purely consultative capacity. Grigory Sokolnikov…
The first page of the treaty in (from left to right) German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ottoman Turkish, and Russian
Lev Kamenev arriving at Brest-Litovsk
Signing of the armistice between Russia and Germany on 15 December 1917. Prince Leopold of Bavaria signing the treaty
Special edition of the Lübeckischen Anzeigen, with the headline as: "Peace with Ukraine"