William Pelz

A People's History of the German Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

1918-19

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying embers of the First World War, quickly erupted into a full scale revolution that toppled the monarchy and inaugurated a period of radical popular democracy.

The establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1919 ended the revolution, relegating all but its most prominent leaders to a historical footnote. In A People's History of the German Revolution, William A. Pelz cuts against the grain of mainstream accounts that tend to present the revolution as more of a 'collapse', or just a chaotic interregnum that preceded the country's natural progression into a republic.

Going beyond the familiar names of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg or Clara Zetkins, Pelz explores the revolution from the bottom up, focusing on the active role that women, rank-and-file activists, and ordinary workers played in its events. Rejecting the depiction of agency as exclusively in the hands of international actors like Woodrow Wilson or in those of German elites, he makes the compelling case that, for a brief period, the actions of the common people shaped a truly revolutionary society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786802491
• Artikelnr.: 53375288

Autorenporträt

William A. Pelz (1951-2017) was Director of the Institute of Working Class History in Chicago and a Professor of History at Elgin Community College. His works include A People's History of the German Revolution, (Pluto, 2018) Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (Haymarket, 2015), The Eugene V. Debs Reader (Merlin Press, 2014) and A People's History of Modern Europe (Pluto, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What German Revolution?
1. Industrialisation and the Rise of the German Working Class, 1871-1914
2. Growth of Radical Belief within the German Common People
3. War, Suffering, Resistance Amidst the German Population
4. The Road to the November Revolution
5. The Kaiser Goes, the Generals Remain: November 1918-January 1919
6. Provocation, Confusion, Revolt and Repression: The Days of January 1919
7. Women in the World War and November Revolution, 1914-1919
8. Death Agony of the Revolution till 1923
9. Legacy of the German Revolution and its International Impact
Conclusion