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The greatest impact it had was it removed Russia from the fighting. Germany had been fighting Russia in the east while fighting France and the UK in the west. By eliminating Russia, Germany could concentrate her armies against France and the UK.
It made him VERY unpopular among the Russian people, with high death tolls, if he was not already (having lost the Russo-Japanese War already). This inevitably ended with the Bolshevik revolution (communist) and his abdication (1917), then in 1918 him and his family were shot in their basement.
The authority of the federal government over the state governments was settled.
On one end, Russian withdrawl closed the Eastern front for the Germans, allowing them to pull troops from that front to augment the Western front. On the other end, this also forced Germany to use vital troops to occupy new Russian territory.