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The Second revolution : the council movement in Berlin 1919-20 /

"The Berlin council movement of 1919-20 proves that there was a left alternative beyond Social Democracy and Stalinism in the German Revolution. The movement combined an impressive mass mobilisation with extensive socialist and democratic aspirations that pointed far beyond the Weimar order. Be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weipert, Axel (Author)
Other Authors: Żurowski, Maciej (Translator) (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Series:Historical materialism book series, volume 284
Subjects:
Berlin (Germany) > History > 1918-1945.
Berlin (Germany) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Works councils > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Revolutionaries > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Women revolutionaries > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Student government > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Revolutions > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the English edition
  • About the author
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The March 1919 General strike in Berlin
  • The Demonstration outside the Reichstag on 13 January
  • The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch and the Council movement
  • The Revolutionary Central Office of Factory councils
  • Pupil councils
  • Unemployed councils
  • The Political Council of Intellectual Workers
  • Women and the Council movement
  • The Council policies of the Left parties and Trade unions
  • Summary and conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.