November 9, 1918 was a “milestone in the history of German democracy,” declared President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a specially scheduled memorial meeting of the German Bundestag (parliament). The ...

The here decisive German Revolution of 1918 was a spontaneous political upheaval, initiated within the armed forces but embracing at once, either actively or passively, the majority of the population, ...

A brief introduction to Richard Müller, the leader of the revolutionary shop stewards (Revolutionäre Obleute) among the German metal workers during World War One, and his role in the mass strikes in ...

This article deals with the first and second national German congresses of the workers' and soldiers' councils in Berlin in december 1918 and april 1919. It has commonly been stated that during the ...

100 years ago, on November 9, 1918, the German Revolution, which had begun a few weeks earlier with mass uprisings of workers and soldiers, forced the Kaiser (Emperor) to abdicate the throne. Shortly ...

This article used research from Kiel Uprising: Women's activism and the German Revolution November 1918, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project. It’s been 100 years since the Marxist ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1955-10-01/failure-revolution-germany-1918-1919https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule ...