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A People's History of the German Revolution
William Pelz
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying embers of the First World War, quickly erupted into a full scale revolution that toppled the monarchy and inaugurated a period of radical popular democracy.
The establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1919 ended the revolution, relegating all but its most prominent leaders to a historical footnote. In A People's History of the German Revolution, William A. Pelz cuts against the grain of mainstream accounts that tend to present the revolution as more of a 'collapse', or just a chaotic interregnum that preceded the country's natural progression into a republic.
Going beyond the familiar names of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg or Clara Zetkins, Pelz explores the revolution from the bottom up, focusing on the active role that women, rank-and-file activists, and ordinary workers played in its events. Rejecting the depiction of agency as exclusively in the hands of international actors like Woodrow Wilson or in those of German elites, he makes the compelling case that, for a brief period, the actions of the common people shaped a truly revolutionary society.
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Karl Liebknecht, Council Movement, Protest, World War I, Independent Social Democratic Party, German Communist Party, Revolts, Trade Unions, Shortages, Freikorps, Media, Wages, Mutinies, German History, Navy, KPD, Social Democratic Party, Elections, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Factory Workers, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, November Revolution, Interwar Years, International Women's Day, Kate Dunker, People's History, Capitalists, Friedrich Ebert, Engels, 1919, Violence, Poverty, Army, German Revolution, Home Front, Strikes, women