POL SCI 140L Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Kiel Mutiny, Spartacus League, Independent Social Democratic Party Of Germany
20 Feb 2018
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A year after founding of comintern, no new communist parties were close to power. Weakened by political repression, internal divisions and poor election results. Russia started treating them as secondary players. Factors that enabled bolshies to come to power had opposite effect in rest of europe. Comintern found greatest support from assorted groups of revolutionary fighters and insurgent forces of the less developed, nonindustrialized world: best hope. No excuse for waiting: it would just prolong misery of oppressed population. Mongolian people"s revolutionary government created, inspired by bolsheviks. Dedicated to liberating nomadic country from chinese occupation. Given a free-hand from moscow in defining priorities. Though moscow didn"t like militant ideals they brought to global revolution. Bolsheviks were much slower to reach agreement in the early 1920s about the meaning of communist leadership within russia. In 1918, gmy faced a nationwide crisis of central authority. Kiel mutiny: sailors revolt and establish an autonomous governing council.
