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The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire , then, in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were ...
The Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils meeting in Berlin on 16 December 1918. The German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 (German: Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte) were short-lived revolutionary bodies that spread the German Revolution to cities across the German Empire during the final days of World War I.
The German historian Wilhelm Deist has argued that politically motivated militants had organised a verdeckter Militärstreik or hidden army strike. [ 3 ] Following the success of imposing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on the Bolshevik regime , General Erich Ludendorff launched the Spring Offensive of 1918 in an attempt to win the war on the ...
Ralf Hoffrogge: The German Revolution’s Bloody End. In: Jacobin Magazine, March 2019; Reinhard Sturm: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik 1918/19. In: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 23 December 2011; Gerd Nohr: März 1919. In: Marxistische Bibliothek, 10 May 2007, Archived from Original; Paul Levi: Brief an Lenin (27. März 1919).
In the German Revolution of 1918–1919, during which Social Democrats and Spartacists were among the groups that fought to determine the country's future form of government, it was the MSPD and the ideas of the bourgeois-democratic parties that prevailed over the Spartacists and their more radical idea of a soviet-style republic.
The People's State of Bavaria (German: Volksstaat Bayern) [nb 1] was a republic in Bavaria from 1918 to 1919. The People's State of Bavaria was established on 8 November 1918 during the German Revolution, as an attempt at a socialist state to replace the Kingdom of Bavaria. The state was led by Kurt Eisner until his assassination in February 1919.
The peace resolution was, however, a first step towards inter-party cooperation and full parliamentarisation of the Reichstag. The combination of political Catholicism, the workers' movement, and liberalism became a driving force behind the moderate outcome of the Revolution of 1918–1919 and in the political development of the Weimar Republic ...
The German constitutional reforms of October 1918, which made the chancellor dependent on the confidence of the Reichstag rather than the emperor, were implemented only after the Supreme Army Command admitted that the war was lost. [3] Weeks later, the Empire was overthrown in the German Revolution of 1918–1919.