Why wasn't Russia in the Paris Peace Talks?

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Russia made a unilateral peace deal with Germany in 1917 and left the war altogether. And doing so they broke their alliance with the Allies. It would have been strange to see the Allies invite Russia to the peace talk. Also they where in political turmoil and civil war was looming in....

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Because the RSFR (I.e. Bolsheviks) weren't recognised as a legal government. In fact both sides of WW1 had been fighting against them. The Bolsheviks refused to pay the Russian Empire's debts or honour its treaties, so really they had no leg to stand on in terms of being recognized as the successor of the Russian Empire, even if they had wanted to be. Since they believed all Europe was about to erupt into revolution, they probably weren't bothered.

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