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This paper aims to examine the denotation of the principle of self-determination before the Pace Treaty from 1919 and the extent to which the principle underpinned the peace treaties that followed the First World War. As such, it configures the two great ways of defining the principle on which the peace treaties were based: the principle of self-determination, connoted as self-governing, which guided the negotiations at the Versailles Peace Conference through President Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the principle of self-determination, used in The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and sustained by “the official socialism”.