The new Bolshevik Russian Government was fragile, and civil war had broken out in Russia in November 1917; the Bolsheviks determined they could not hold onto peripheral parts of the old empire.
O novo goberno bolxevique ruso era débil, e a guerra civil estalara en Rusia en novembro de 1917; os bolxeviques consideraron que non podían aferrarse a partes periféricas do antigo imperio.