HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Dawes Plan, George Grosz, Franz Kafka
Document Summary
Towards late 1917 & 1918, into 1919, there were a series of revolutions. Populations of powers about to be defeated (germany, a-h) were rising up. Early nov. 1918, socialists in german state of bavaria proclaim a bavarian-soviet republic on the model of the russian rev. Mutinies of german sailors, the german chancellor calling for kaiser wilhelm to abdicate. Social democrats feared a bolshevik-style revolution & they tried to undercut more revolutionary sentiments by forming a new german republic. German republic was unstable from the left & right from the beginning. Labourers pressured it to be more radical, others thought there should be an authoritarian gov"t. Didn"t develop political institutions to develop long-term stability. The new republic needed army support, which was offered on the condition that the military could have free reign to police the country against bolshevik-style revolution (the republic became prisoner of the army) Militant communists rising up against police & soldiers, who murdered communist leaders.
