German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 (German: Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte) were short-lived revolutionary bodies that spread the German...
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German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in...
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Saxony in the German Revolution (1918–1919) followed a path that went from early control by workers' and soldiers' councils to the adoption of a republican...
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mutiny. Workers and soldiers have also operated councils in conjunction (like the 1918 German Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat). Workers' councils may in turn...
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provisional government of Germany during the first part of the German Revolution, from 10 November 1918 to 13 February 1919. Formed initially by three...
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domestic troubles, particularly the German Revolution. In the wake of the German Revolution, councils of workers and soldiers (Soldaten- und Arbeiterräte) formed...
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Bremen Soviet Republic (category German Revolution of 1918–1919)
Council Republic (German: Bremer Räterepublik), was an unrecognised revolutionary state in Germany formed during the German revolution of 1918–1919 in...
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Kiel mutiny (category German Revolution of 1918–1919)
the German government. The mutineers, who saw the planned battle as a futile "death voyage", took over Kiel with workers' and soldiers' councils and then...
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Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–1919 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand)...
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Weimar Republic (redirect from German Reich (1919–1933))
Kiel mutiny on 3 November. Sailors, soldiers and workers began electing workers' and soldiers' councils (Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte) modelled after the...
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Friedrich Ebert (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the party opposed to war and advocated a split. Ebert was a pivotal figure in the German Revolution of 1918–1919. When Germany became a republic at the...
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Berlin March Battles (redirect from Bloody Week (March 1919))
stake: the existence of the workers' and soldiers' councils and thus the legitimacy of the revolution." The workers' councils in Berlin had, since mid-February...
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100 workers' councils operated there in the years 1918–1919, assembling around 500,000 workers and peasants. The most numerous and radical councils were...
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Ruhr uprising (category Battles of the Political violence in Germany (1918–1933))
for in November 1918: nationalisation of key industries, recognition of the workers' and soldiers' councils and establishment of a council republic. The...
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Bavarian Soviet Republic (redirect from Councils Republic of Bavaria)
Bavaria during the German revolution of 1918–1919. A group of communists and anarchists declared the Bavarian Soviet Republic on 6 April 1919, forcing the government...
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World War. Governments led by the MSPD steered Germany through the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the first years of the Weimar Republic. They followed...
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Revolutionary Stewards (category German Revolution of 1918–1919)
"socialisation" of industries and government by workers' and soldiers' councils rather than a parliamentary system. On 2 November 1918 there was a meeting of...
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People's State of Bavaria (category German Revolution of 1918–1919)
up a revolutionary workers' and soldiers' council at Kiel in early November, they quickly spread the councils across Germany and with little bloodshed...
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9 November and to the announcement of the abdication of Wilhelm II. Workers' and soldiers' councils took control in most major cities west of the Elbe, including...
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Spartacist uprising (redirect from Bloody Week (January 1919))
Germany, 1918–19. New York: Library Press. ISBN 9780912050232. Jones, Mark (2016). Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918–1919....
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socialism and advocated workers' councils and council democracy. It is regarded as being strongest in Germany and the Netherlands during the 1920s. Council communism...
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Hungarian Soviet Republic (redirect from Hungarian Republic of Councils)
collapse of the Soviet Republic. When the Republic of Councils in Hungary was established in 1919, it controlled about 23% of the territory of Hungary's...
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(Workers' and Soldiers' Councils) during the German Revolution of November 1918, including Bremen (January–February 1919), Braunschweig (November 1918...
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Spartacus League (category Organizations of the German Revolution of 1918–1919)
been banned. The German workers' and soldiers' councils arose spontaneously in sections of the imperial military, local governments, and large industrial...
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until 1915, when the city came under German occupation after a successful German offensive. In late 1918, German soldiers withdrew from the occupied lands...
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The Mainz Workers' and Soldiers' Council (German: Mainzer Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat) was the effective government of Mainz from 9 November until the arrival...
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Würzburg Soviet Republic (category German Revolution of 1918–1919)
Republic (German: Würzburger Räterepublik) was an unrecognized, short-lived state organized under council communism in Würzburg, Germany in April 1919. It had...
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Ebert–Groener pact (category German Revolution of 1918–1919)
Soldatenräte" [Workers' and Soldiers' Councils]. Deutsches Historisches Museum (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2024. "Ebert-Groener Pakt (German)". Deutsches...
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Nazi Party (redirect from National Socialist German Workers' Party)
Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between...
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addressed by the October 1918 constitutional reforms. The amendment to Constitution of the German Empire turned the German Reich into a parliamentary...
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