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Treaty Of Berlin (August 27, 1918)
The Treaty of Berlin of 27 August 1918 was an agreement signed after several months of negotiations between representatives of the early Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR, colloquially known as 'Bolshevik Russia') and the German Empire (or 'Reich'). This treaty completed and clarified several political and economic clauses of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918), which had been left out of the winter 1917–1918 negotiations. The latter were aimed at ending the war between the Central Powers and Soviet Russia and clarifying the extent of Russia's territorial losses, but left unresolved the question of war indemnities due to the German Empire and its allies, primarily Austria-Hungary and their new mutual vassal, the Ukrainian People's Republic. Similarly, the nature of the new economic relations between the Central Powers and Bolshevik Russia was not discussed in depth at Brest-Litovsk. Consequently, in accordance with the terms of the peace treaty signed i ...
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Eastern Front (World War I)
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Gustav Stresemann
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Pavlo Skoropadskyi
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi (; – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, who served as the Hetman of all Ukraine, hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état, coup d'état in April 29 of the same year. Born the son of a nobleman, he attended the Page Corps from which he came out an officer. After his service in the Russo-Japanese War, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, later in command of the Finnish Dragoon Regiment, 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment in 1910. Skoropadskyi would be promoted to major general and aide-de-camp of Nicholas II in 1912. During the World War I, First World War, he became a lieutenant general in charge of the 34th Army Corps (Russian Empire), 34th Army Corps. After the February Revolution which saw the emergence of the Central Rada, Skoropadskyi would begin to Ukrainization, Ukrainize his 34th Army Corps, later known as the 1st Ukrainian Corps. With the help of the German Em ...
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Ukrainian State
The Ukrainian State (), sometimes also called the Second Cossack Hetmanate, Hetmanate (), was an Anti-communism, anti-Bolshevik government that existed on most of the modern territory of Ukraine (except for Western Ukraine) from 29 April to 14 December 1918. It was installed by German Empire, German military authorities after the socialist-leaning Central Council of Ukraine, Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic was dispersed on 28 April 1918. The Ukrainian State was governed by Pavlo Skoropadskyi, the hetman of all Ukraine, who outlawed all socialist-oriented political parties, creating an Anti-communism, anti-Bolshevik front with the Russian State. It collapsed in December 1918, when Skoropadskyi was deposed and the Ukrainian People's Republic returned to power in the form of the Directorate of Ukraine, Directorate. History Background As a result of the Bolshevik aggression, the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic that initially pursued anti-m ...
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Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers)
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Central Rada
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1918 Ukrainian Coup D'état
The 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état or Hetman Coup () was a military coup d'état within the Ukrainian People's Republic on 29 April 1918. That day, farmers and landowners loyal to the Ukrainian lieutenant general Pavlo Skoropadskyi, with the support of the German Empire, launched a coup d'état against the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, removing the Central Rada and installing Skoropadskyi as hetman. The coup was precipitated by a serious deterioration of relations between the Central Rada (parliament) of Ukraine and German occupational forces over land ownership conflicts, the paralysed status of the country's railway system, and the weak security apparatus of the Ukrainian government. These conditions ultimately culminated in the kidnapping of banker , who had helped to negotiate the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers), Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Ukraine and the Central Powers, by government officials. Ukraine's Prime Minister, Vsevolod Holubo ...
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