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Brest armistice addresses foreign troops in Iran
📅 15 December 1917Article 10 of the Brest-Litovsk armistice recognized neutral Iran’s territorial inviolability and provided for Russian and Ottoman troop withdrawal. Iran’s situation entered the peace negotiations.
Iran proposes new treaties on equal terms
📅 30 January 1918An Iranian memorandum offered negotiations for treaties based on equality. Tehran sought to turn Russia’s revolutionary declarations into a different diplomatic relationship.
Brest-Litovsk peace recognizes Iranian independence
📅 3 March 1918Article 7 of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty committed the parties to respect Iran’s political and economic independence and territorial integrity. Iran was affected without being a signatory.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk removes Russia from the war
📅 3 March 1918Soviet Russia signed a harsh peace treaty with the Central Powers, surrendering extensive territories and populations. The treaty ended fighting on the Eastern Front, but its terms were overturned...
Battle of Warsaw turns the Polish-Soviet War
📅 12 August 1920Polish forces halted the Red Army’s advance toward Warsaw in a battle that reshaped the border struggle in Eastern Europe. The war involved competing national projects, revolutionary ambitions, and...
Preliminary peace signed at Riga
📅 12 October 1920Poland and Soviet Russia and Ukraine signed a preliminary peace agreement ending major fighting in the Polish-Soviet War. The border settlement divided Ukrainian and Belarusian lands and constrained...
The Soviet government signs a preliminary peace with Poland
📅 12 October 1920The armistice ended the Polish-Soviet War’s major fighting and was followed by the 1921 Treaty of Riga, which divided contested territories. Trotsky had led the Red Army during the conflict; Ukrainian...
Soviet-Persian Treaty repudiates tsarist privileges
📅 26 February 1921The Soviet-Persian Treaty of Friendship repudiated many privileges and concessions obtained by the Russian Empire in Persia and declared a new basis for relations. This anti-imperial gesture...
Anglo-Soviet trade accord constrains revolutionary diplomacy
📅 16 March 1921Britain and Soviet Russia signed a trade agreement requiring restraint in hostile propaganda. Its Asian provisions placed diplomatic limits on Soviet encouragement of anti-British movements.
Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement signed
📅 26 May 1921Britain and Soviet Russia signed a trade agreement that reduced the risk of renewed war and opened commercial relations. The agreement did not amount to full diplomatic recognition, but it marked...
Treaty of Rapallo restores Soviet-German relations
📅 16 April 1922Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Rapallo, renouncing claims and restoring diplomatic relations. The agreement challenged the isolation of both states after the First World War. It also...
The Treaty of Rapallo reshapes Soviet-German relations
📅 16 April 1922Soviet Russia and Germany signed a treaty restoring diplomatic relations and renouncing mutual claims during the Genoa Conference. Lenin backed diplomatic engagement despite both governments’...