Lenins Repatriierungspolitik
Lenin's Policy of Resettlement

Summary/Abstract: The difficulties that arose during the German-Soviet negotiations in Moscow on the issues of repatriation suggest that we should look back to the period after the First World War, when there was also a repatriation problem between the Soviet Union and its neighboring countries. As is well known, the First World War, the wars with the newly formed western border states and the Russian Civil War ended with major territorial changes for the young Soviet Union, the successor state of the former Russian Empire: large areas of land were ceded to the new western neighboring states. It is extraordinarily remarkable that the peace treaties and other agreements concluded by Lenin, which had the aim of liquidating the war and its consequences, all provided for a very generous settlement of the population problems.

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