Editing Decree on Peace (section)

{{Short description|Statement of Russian foreign policy goals by Lenin after the October Revolution}}
{{main|Soviet Decree}}
[[Image:Dekret o mire.png|right|thumb|Decree on Peace title page]]
'''The Decree on Peace''', written by [[Vladimir Lenin]], was passed by the [[Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies]] on the {{OldStyleDate|8 November|1917|26 October|1917}}, following the [[October Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/decree_on_peace|title = Decree on Peace &#124; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)}}</ref> It was published in the ''[[Izvestiya]]'' newspaper, #208, {{OldStyleDate|9 November|1917|27 October|1917}}. Proposing an immediate withdrawal of Russia from [[World War I]], the decree was ultimately implemented through the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]]. [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s famous "[[Fourteen Points]]" of January 1918 were largely a response to this decree.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2h82DQAAQBAJ&q=Pressured+by+thei+exhausted+populations&pg=PA327|title=The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24|last=Hannigan|first=Robert E.|date=2016-11-11|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812248593|pages=125–129|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://staff.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect16.htm|title=Legacy of 1917 and 1918|last=Sowers|first=Steven W.|website=Michigan State University}}</ref>