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, ...

The German Revolution of 1918 has long been overshadowed by its more thunderous elder sibling, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. This is a pity, as Robert Gerwarth contends in his new history, ...

For four years, the German Empire took on much of the world in what was originally called the Great War. Berlin had allies, after a fashion — the decrepit Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, along ...

It's been 100 years since the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was brutally murdered in Germany. On January 15 1919, she was beaten and killed by the anti-revolutionary Freikorps. Her body was ...

“The rank and file conceive government only as something to be fought. Their own champions become objects of suspicion when they don the robes of state.” The German revolution was long preparing, and, ...

The logical result of the collapse of German Imperialism following the military defeat, was the revolution. On November 4th the revolt in Kiel occurred. The ferment manifested itself first among the ...

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 ...

In a recent article in Scribner's Magazine, which is reprinted in part below, S. M. Bouton, foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, outlines the conditions of post-Revolution universities in ...