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    The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. It was founded in August 1914...
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    launched in September 1916, which gave a new name to the faction — the Spartakusbund, rendered into English as the Spartacist League. While the revolutionary...
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  • League/Lanka Spartacus League is the name of: The original Spartacus League (Spartakusbund, 1914–1919), a communist organisation in post-World War I Germany well...
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    conference in Gotha, with Hugo Haase as the party's first chairman. The Spartakusbund also merged into the newly founded party, but it retained relative autonomy...
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    the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), the Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the SPD supported...
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    the Communist Party of Germany, the IKD groups joined forces with the Spartakusbund to form the KPD. Large parts of the former IKD members, however, were...
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    Spartakusbund, 1915-1919, in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns Red Rising in Bavaria, Ricahrd Grunberger, Arthur Baker Ltd, 1973, p.56 "Spartakusbund, 1915-1919...
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    by Karl Liebknecht, co-leader with Rosa Luxemburg of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartacus League), a group of a few hundred supporters of the Russian...
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  • one of the leaders of the left-wing revolutionary Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), proclaimed a "Free Socialist Republic" from a balcony of the Berlin...
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    His grandfather Fazıl Say, whose name he shares, was a member of the Spartakusbund. Say was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic arithmetic with 4-digit...
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    Fighter against Fascism and Stalinism, Routledge 2019 Bill Pelz, The Spartakusbund and the German working class movement, 1914–1919, Lewiston, New York:...
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    The uprising took its popular name from the Marxist Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), which Luxemburg and Liebknecht founded in 1914. When the KPD was established...
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    at a city-wide strike. The Bremen Communists, reorganised with the Spartakusbund as the KPD at the national level, supported an uprising in Berlin against...
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  • Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and the Center Party. Spartacus League Spartakusbund Left-wing Anti-Weimar Republic Originally formed in 1914 by Rosa Luxemburg...
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    formed in October 1918, with the support from the Spartacus League (Spartakusbund). It was unable to attract new members and its membership peaked in...
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    member of the soldier's soviet of his army corps. In 1919, he joined the Spartakusbund. Along with the bulk of the USPD, he joined the KPD in 1920 and became...
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    member of the Socialist Worker Youth [de], from 1917 to 1920 of the Spartakusbund and from 1919 of the Communist Party of Germany. In 1923 he took part...
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    Karl Liebknecht, originally known as Gruppe Internationale, later as Spartakusbund, the forerunner of the German Communist Party. Marchlewski was arrested...
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    from the war he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Spartakusbund. He participated in armed uprisings in Halle, Hamburg and Berlin as...
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  • involvement in World War I, she and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartakusbund ("Spartacus League"), which eventually became the Communist Party of...
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    veterans, ostensibly to defend Germany from communist groups such as the Spartakusbund and KPD. These groups at times fought under direct command of the Reichswehr...
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  • itself a breakaway organisation from the Communist Party - to form the "Spartakusbund der linkskommunistischen Organisationen" ("Spartakus League of left-communist...
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  • part in the founding conference of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD Spartakusbund) as a delegate of the IKD's Dresden branch. In January 1919 Plättner...
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    (KAG 1926) Otto Geithner (de) Agnes Schmidt Hans Schreyer (de) 1926 Spartakusbund linkskommunistischer Organisationen (de) Iwan Katz Franz Pfemfert Oskar...
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  • wartime experiences radicalized his political sympathies towards the Spartakusbund. Upon resuming his studies, he befriended Paul Levi and Ruth Fischer...
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  • Rosa Luxemburg's leftist revolutionary group renamed themselves the Spartakusbund (The Spartacus League). The 1967–1972 replacement apartment building...
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  • Arbeiterräte: Rede des Genossen Brandler auf dem 5. Parteitag der KPD (Spartakusbund) in Berlin, am 2. November 1920. (Factory Council and Political Workers'...
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    Metal Workers' Union and the Socialist Labourers Youth, in 1916 of the Spartakusbund. In 1918, he was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for his participation...
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    the Reich Conference of the Gruppe Internationale, later named the Spartakusbund, which he participated in Berlin. Arrested by the authorities along...
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    and participated in the issuance of the letters and leaflets of the Spartakusbund (Spartacus League). Meyer remained the only Spartakan on the editorial...
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