HIST1094 Lecture 16: 10.24.16 Searching for Postwar Order
Document Summary
The founding of the weiar republic, 1919-1920: german left at the end of wwi is split into two main factions: the german social. Democratic party, led by friedrich ebert, which had supported the war up until the strikes that ended it, and the spartacist league, led by rosa luxembourg and karl. Liebknecht, which had opposed the war: social democrats wanted to keep the parliamentary system; spartacists wanted the direct overthrow of capitalism and a state run by workers councils, inspired by the. Soviets: when spartacists took over berlin in january 1919, ebert worked with right-wing veterans militias, the freikorps, to suppress the spartacists and kill luxembourg and. Liebknecht: the weimar republic, a parliamentary government for germany, largely run by the. Social democrats and conservatives, was founded soon thereafter. Revolution and counterrevolution in central europe, 1919-1923: the versailles treaty established several new states in eastern and central europe.
