Duncan Hart
The 1918 revolution in Germany is perhaps one of history's most underappreciated events. The revolution in November of that year not only ended World War 1, but heralded the internationalisation of the workers' revolution that had begun in Russia in 1917. Soviets, or rate in German, became the ruling power all across Germany, expressing the hope that millions of workers held in the promise of socialism after so many years of bloody war. Revolutionaries like Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became household names. The tragedy of how this inspiring mass movement in one of the most developed capitalist countries was ultimately defeated, will be the subject of this talk.