The first steps of Soviet diplomacy (1918-1925)

German and Ukrainian officers in Kyiv in 1918. German soldiers marching through the streets of Kyiv.

A German general passes by accompanied by staff officers.

Texts of newspaper articles on the issue of concluding peace with Germany.

Photographs of participants in frontline rallies.

A speaker speaks at a rally.

Photograph of participants in a Red Army rally.

Negotiations between the Soviet delegation and representatives of the German command in Brest, signing of the peace treaty.

Faces of those present at the signing of the treaty.

Seal of the treaty.

Lenin's manuscript on the need to conclude peace.

General view of a revolutionary rally in Berlin in November 1918. A speaker speaks at a rally on the square in front of the Reichstag.

German naval sailors lower the flag of the German Empire.

The imperial flag sinks in the water.

Raising the red flag on the mast of a German ship.

Demonstration in Berlin, naval sailors marching.

General view of the rally rostrum in front of the Reichstag.

Liebknecht K. speaks at the rally.

Panorama of the rally (from above).

Liebknecht continues speaking.

The rally participants greet the speaker and raise their weapons.

Liebknecht continues speaking.

Revolutionary demonstration in Berlin.

People on the streets of Berlin greet the demonstration participants.

The demonstration moves along a Berlin street.

A truck with soldiers passes by.

A sentry stands at the entrance to the Grand Kremlin Palace in the first half of the 1920s.

Foreign diplomats exit the palace and get into a car, reporters take photographs.

The foreign diplomats leave in a car.

Kalinin M.I., Yenukidze A.S. exit the palace.

Employees of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR get into a car.

Kalinin and Yenukidze approach the entrance to the palace, the guard on duty greets them.

A foreign diplomat drives up to the entrance of the Grand Kremlin Palace and goes inside accompanied by a military man.

A foreign diplomat in a ceremonial uniform enters from the palace and gets into a car, the duty officer sees him off.

The foreign diplomats get into the car and drive away.

The driver sits behind the wheel of the car parked at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Kalinin gets out of the doors.

Kalinin and Badayev A.E. in the back seat of the car.

Interior views of the Kremlin.

Yenukidze, Karakhan L.M., Ter-Gabrielyan S.M. in the Kremlin among foreign diplomats.

Foreign diplomats talk among themselves.

Krasin L.B., Yenukidze, Kalinin in the Kremlin during a meeting with foreign diplomats.