The dictatorship of the proletariat was in fact a dictatorship of Lenin.
无产阶级专政实际上是列宁的专政
The peace of Brest-Litovsk was signed in March.
在共产党首都从彼得格勒
Shortly afterward the communist capital moved from Petrograd to Moscow.
迁移到莫斯科后不久,《布列斯特和约》于三月签定
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.
《布列斯特和约》也给了法国,英国和美国一个理由在俄国四周各地派往维和部队
Thanks to the Ottoman Empire's decay the communist regime was safe from the South.
由于奥斯曼帝国的衰落,这使得共产主义政权免受来自南部的威胁
And eventually the British, French, and Americans did pull out.
最终英国,法国和美国也进行了撤兵
But in the Far East the Japanese got even bolder for awhile.
而在远东日本人一时变得更为嚣张起来
They were not coaxed out of Vladivostok until 1920.
他们一直占据着海参崴,直到1920年被哄骗离开
When this happened the new communist regime was isolated from the rest of a hostile world.
而那时新兴的共产主义政权被迫同外面满是敌意的世界隔绝开来
After the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Germans set up buffer states in Ukraine, including much of Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
在《布列斯特和约》签订后,德国人设立了缓冲区,包括乌克兰,波兰大部分,芬兰,拉脱维亚,立陶宛和爱沙尼亚
Fortunately for these new buffer states German occupation ended along with the war thanks to the armistice of November 11th, 1918.
对这些新的缓冲国来说,幸运的是多亏了1918年11月11日的停战协定,德国的占领随战争一同结束了
Freedom from Germany did not necessarily mean enthusiasm for communism.
逃离德国的自由并不意味着对共产主义的热忱
Lenin's declaration of rights of people's of Russia promised great things:
列宁的俄国各族人民权利宣言包含了很多宏大的承诺:
equality for all, political self-determination, freedom of religion, and the right of each people to retain its national culture.
全体平等,政治自决,宗教自由以及所有民族都有保留自己民族文化的权利