 Following the Russian October Revolution of 1917, the new Bolshevik government signed a separate peace treaty with Germany.The collapse of the Eastern Front of World War I presented a tremendous problem to the Entente powers since it allowed Germany to shift troops and war material to the Western Front of World War I.As well as this, the 50,000-strong Czechoslovak Legion, fighting on the side of the Allied Powers, was no longer in friendly territory, and was attempting to fight its way out through the east to Vladivostok along the Bolshevik-held Trans-Siberian Railway.