HISTORY 322 Lecture 4: A german revolution?
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The german revolution was primarily: a war ending revolution. Friedrich ebert was: the first president of the weimar republic, the leader of the majority socialists, the first postwar german chancellor. The parties with their programs for change: spd/mspd: constitutional and democratic change, uspd: revolutionary change, spartacus league: mass revolution, russian style, imperial elite: preserve the status quo as much as possible. This group disperses in 1914, with two of its prominent members die in the war, and after the war the group functions as an inspiration for artists, but is no longer working. War and expressionism: art as a political language: the working council of art in berlin in 1918: the november group, which forms during the time where germany begins to launch this revolution that ends the war. It is very anti-war and the images created become the founding works that make the group believe that their work is important to the war.
