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The Conclusion with the Central Powers of the Peace of Brest Litovsk, March 3, 1918


  • The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State : Stockholm, December 27, 1917
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, December 29, 1917
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, December 31, 1917
  • The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Secretary of State : Moscow, January 1, 1918
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 1, 1918, 5 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 1, 1918, 8 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 2, 1918.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 2, 1918, 10 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 3, 1918, midnight.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 5, 1918, 10 a.m.
  • The British Embassy to the Department of State : Washington, January 6, 1918.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 6, 1918, 6 p.m.
  • The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia (Francis) : Washington, January 9, 1918, 2 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 12, 1918, 6 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 13, 1918.
  • The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State : Stockholm, January 21, 1918.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, January 28, 1918, 1 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, February 11, 1918, 7 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, February 18, 1918.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, February 19, 1918, 9 p.m.
  • The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State : Stockholm, February 22, 1918.
  • The Minister in the Netherlands (Garrett) to the Secretary of State : The Hague, February 22,1918.
  • Kuhlmann's Reichstag speech
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, February 24, 1918.
  • Answer of the German Government to the application of the Russian Government of February 19, 1918
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, February 24, 1918.
  • The Minister in Sweden (Morris) the Secretary of State : Stockholm, March 4, 1918.
  • The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State : Stockholm, March 6, 1918.
  • The Acting Secretary of State to the French Ambassador (Jusserand) : Washington, March 12, 1918.
  • The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Secretary of State : Moscow, March 16, 1918,10 a.m.
  • The Minister in the Netherlands (Garrett) to the Secretary of State : The Hague, March 19, 1918.
  • Hertling's speech Reichstag
  • The Ambassador in Great Britian (Page) to the Secretary of State : London, March 25, 1918.
  • The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State : Stockholm, March 25, 1918.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Vologda, April 2, 1918, 5 p.m.
  • The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Vologda, April 15, 1918.
  • Statement Made by Ambassador Francis on March 16, 1918
  • Reply of the Soviet Government to the inquiry from the German Government concerning the Statement of Ambassador Francis to representatives of the press at Vologda.
  • The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Secretary of State : Moscow, March 30 and April 2,1918

  • Peace Treaty of Best Litovsk


  • The German-Russian Agreement, Supplementary to the Peace Treaty Concluded Between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the One Hand and Russia on the Other
  • CHAPTER I.-Reestablishment of Diplomatic and consular relations
  • CHAPTER II.-Reestablishment of political treaties.
  • CHAPTER III.-Restoration of private juridical relations
  • CHAPTER IV.-Compensation for Civil losses
  • CHAPTER V.-Exchange of war prisoners and Civil prisoners
  • CHAPTER VI.-Care of the repatriated
  • CHAPTER VII.-Amnesty
  • CHAPTER VIII.-Status of merchant vessels and cargoes which have fallen into the hands of the enemy
  • CHAPTER IX.-Organization of the Spitsbergen Archipelago
  • CHAPTER X.-Concluding Regulations


  • Variations of the Austro-Hungarian-Russian Additional Agreement From the German-Russian
  • Variations of the Bulgarian-Russian Additional Agreement From the German-Russian
  • Variations of the Turkish-Russian Additional Agreement From the German-Russian


  • Appendices
  • Appendix II - Germany and Russia
  • Supplement 1 to Appendix II
  • Final Protocol
  • Part I To the Text of the Treaty
  • Part II To Customhouse Regulations
  • Appendix III - Variations of the Austro-Hungarian-Russian Economic Agreement From the German-Russian Economic Agreement
  • Supplement 1 to Appendix III
  • Appendices IV and V - The Bulgarian-Russian and Turkish-Russian Economic Agreements

  • The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Secretary of State : Moscow, April 22, 1918.
  • The Turkish Russian Additional Agreement
  • The Chargé in Sweden (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State : Stockholm, August 23, 1918.
  • Russia's Losses in the Brest Peace as Published in the "Stockholms Aftontidningen" of July 28, 1918
  • Variant Text of the Treaty of Brest Litovsk


  • The Peace of Brest-Litovsk : A Bibliography Compiled by the Avalon Project

  • Source:
    Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
    1918
    Russia
    (in Three Volumes)
    Volume I
    Department of State Publication 222
    Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1931

    USMARC Cataloging Record