Tag: socialism
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History of the Weimar Republic. I. 1918-1923.
Germany’s defeat and ultimate national humiliation after the First World War led to widespread discontent and resentment against the draconian peace settlement. Workers composed a revolutionary mass that forced the old monarchic governments out of office in November 1918, but there remained a strong minority among the workers who wanted more than a democratic…
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History of Germany: 1878-1890.
A new effort against the socialists as an alleged “internal enemy” was calculated at preserving the power of the state, which likewise also failed. Intensive industrialisation since the 1850s had increased the size of Germany’s industrial proletariat, which was followed by the lower and middle classes in all of the German states receiving impulses toward…