Freed to focus on Western Front following Brest-Litovsk treaty that ended Russia's, German forces launched all-out attempt to break through Allied lines succeeding in the spring of 1918.. ..…

Blood was spilling… The number of graves grew as two regiments were almost completely destroyed by German artillery fire,” recalled General Anton Denikin, commenting about the Russian army’s plight. . Russia increased its production of artillery shells, but it was still not enough. ..…

The western front, while stabilized, would be bled by increased and more powerful German thrusts should Russia quit the war, as increasingly looked likely. ... No Stalin would imply a different trajectory for history in Russia in the decades before World War II. . ..…