When establishing a new government you might ask yourself the above questions to decide on what

If you are establishing a new form of government, the first thing you have to establish is law and order.  True there are many issues that need to be resolved but before doing so, you have to ensure that there is a system of laws to maintain order first.  This would prevent chaos knowing that there is a set of laws for people to follow.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.