WWI Centennial: Armistice on the Eastern Front
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war just 100 years after they happened . This is the 297th installment in the series . December 17 , 1917 : truce on the Eastern Front AfteroverthrowingRussia ’s decrepit Provisional Government in November 1917 , Lenin ’s Bolsheviks moved fleetly to consolidate control of the land , regurgitate political opponents , close newsprint , shut out down rival power centre outside the Soviet — including the Constituent Assembly , sideline on December 11 — and installing their own representatives on local and regional Soviets across the country ....