The dictatorship of the proletariat was in fact a dictatorship of Lenin.
無產階級專政實際上是列寧的專政
The peace of Brest-Litovsk was signed in March.
在共產黨首都從彼得格勒
Shortly afterward the communist capital moved from Petrograd to Moscow.
遷移到莫斯科后不久,《布列斯特和約》于三月簽定
The peace of Brest-Litovsk also gave France, Britain, and the US an excuse to lend peacekeeping troops at various points around the Russian empire.
《布列斯特和約》也給了法國,英國和美國一個理由在俄國四周各地派往維和部隊
Thanks to the Ottoman Empire's decay the communist regime was safe from the South.
由于奧斯曼帝國的衰落,這使得共產主義政權免受來自南部的威脅
And eventually the British, French, and Americans did pull out.
最終英國,法國和美國也進行了撤兵
But in the Far East the Japanese got even bolder for awhile.
而在遠東日本人一時變得更為囂張起來

They were not coaxed out of Vladivostok until 1920.
他們一直占據著海參崴,直到1920年被哄騙離開
When this happened the new communist regime was isolated from the rest of a hostile world.
而那時新興的共產主義政權被迫同外面滿是敵意的世界隔絕開來
After the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Germans set up buffer states in Ukraine, including much of Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
在《布列斯特和約》簽訂后,德國人設立了緩沖區,包括烏克蘭,波蘭大部分,芬蘭,拉脫維亞,立陶宛和愛沙尼亞
Fortunately for these new buffer states German occupation ended along with the war thanks to the armistice of November 11th, 1918.
對這些新的緩沖國來說,幸運的是多虧了1918年11月11日的停戰協定,德國的占領隨戰爭一同結束了
Freedom from Germany did not necessarily mean enthusiasm for communism.
逃離德國的自由并不意味著對共產主義的熱忱
Lenin's declaration of rights of people's of Russia promised great things:
列寧的俄國各族人民權利宣言包含了很多宏大的承諾:
equality for all, political self-determination, freedom of religion, and the right of each people to retain its national culture.
全體平等,政治自決,宗教自由以及所有民族都有保留自己民族文化的權利