How did Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia gain independence 1914-1918?

The preconditions for gaining independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were the economic and political factors that were present in the Russian Empire. Autocracy as a method of government has exhausted itself. Russia was drawn into a large, world-wide war alien to the people. All this was the reason for the political crisis and the collapse of the state, which the peoples of these countries were not slow to take advantage of.