German Revolution 1918 - 19
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An exploration of the intelligence supplied to the British government regarding the pitiful state of Germany at the end of the Great War, and the increasing disillusionment inside the Political Intelligence Department of Foreign Office as... more
Es ist eines der aussagekräftigsten Bildmotive aus dem Revolutionsgeschehen 1918/19 in Deutschland. Soldaten halten ein Schild, darauf unmissverständlich die Warnung aufgedruckt: »Wer weitergeht wird erschossen!« HALT! rufen sie und... more
This paper was first written as a Master's Thesis by the author for the history program ' Political Culture and National Identities' at Leiden University in 2017. The thesis received a 7.5 out of 10. A short abstract of the thesis follow... more
Review of the new edition of Richard Müllers history of the German Revolution 1918/19
O bolchevismo do tempo de Lenine sempre encarou a revolução na Rússia atrasada e camponesa como uma espécie de prelúdio ao que verdadeiramente importava, a revolução alemã. Lenine e Trotsky gostavam de afirmar que a principal tarefa do... more
Il 22 settembre 1920 Lenin parlò ai circa duecento partecipanti alla IX Conferenza del partito bolscevico, a Mosca. Uno dei più importanti discorsi di quel periodo.
This article tells the story of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, a group of metalworkers that organized anti-war protests in 1914-1918 and were important organizers behind the events later known as the German Revolution of 1918.... more
This chapter reads the German revolution through Miguel Abensour’s theory of insurgent democracy, and in the context of two major criticisms of radical democratic theory. Insurgent democracy posits a radical version of democracy that... more
Casi simbólicamente, la corta vida de Rosa Luxemburg estuvo marcada por dos importantes revoluciones proletarias. Nació en 1871, pocos días antes del inicio de la Comuna de París. Fue asesinada en 1919, a los 47 años, pocos días después... more
An exploration of British policy toward the German Revolution, critical of the failure of British decision makers to expend any effort to consolidate the historic shift to democracy in Germany at the end of the Great War.
In der üblichen Periodisierung der Weimarer Republik beginnt mit dem Jahr 1924 die Phase ihrer ‚relativen Stabilisierung‘. Nach der Überwindung der Hyperinflation 1923 ist dies meist wirtschafts- und sozialpolitisch gemeint, oft auch in... more
Le rivoluzioni non possono che essere anticipate da minoranze. Il germe mutante della nuova società che incomincia a mettere radici in quella vecchia non può che far parte di un insieme temporaneamente isolato, persino non compreso.... more
Annotated translation of the diaries of the German writer and journalist Alfons Paquet (1881–1944), who in 1918 was a special correspondent of the newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in Moscow.
Vorabdruck. Mit der Niederschlagung der Januarkämpfe 1919 und der Ermordung Rosa Luxemburgs und Karl Liebknechts begann die gegenrevolutionäre Gewalt. Von dort lässt sich der Bogen bis zum Machtantritt der Nazis spannen.
Vortrag vom 2. März 2019 für den Verband der Parlaments- und Verhandlungsstenografen e.V. Wie wurde die praktische Arbeit des Parlamentsbetriebs 1918 während der revolutionären Situation zu Beginn der Weimarer Republik organisiert? Der... more
An exploration of events inside bitterly divided Germany at the end of the Great War, the coming of the German Revolution of 1918, and the international history of the armistice of 11 November 1918.
Rosa Luxemburg did not pretend to know everything that the Bolsheviks ignored or to own a recipe that they were lacking. On the contrary, her view of the revolutionnary process underwent major changes between late1906, as she wrote her... more
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Eine landesgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Verlauf und Folgen der Revolution von 1918 an der bayerischen Peripherie
Eine landesgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Verlauf und Folgen der Revolution von 1918 an der bayerischen Peripherie
Ausgangspunkt dieser Reflexion ist die berühmte Collage bzw. Fotomontage von Hannah Höch, Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser Dada durch die letzte Weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche (1919/20), die unter Höchs Werken die Deutsche Revolution am... more
Mit dem Näherrücken des Zentenariums der Novemberrevolution entwindet sich dieses herausragende Ereignis der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte mehr und mehr der Charakterisierung, die Alexander Gallus 2010 prägte. Denn sie hört zusehends... more
Hannah Arendt is known for her celebration and critical examination of modern revolutions. However, the relative absence of the German Revolution from Arendt’s writings has received little attention in scholarship, despite the major role... more
An extended version of a paper presented at the Australian Association of European Historians conference in July 1995.
Revisitamos regularmente os grandes clássicos, reapropriamo-nos das suas obras, porque eles e elas têm sempre coisas novas a dizer-nos. Cada geração descobre-nos ditos, escritos e feitos dos clássicos-novas dimensões insuspeitadas pelas... more
Global capitalism can only be overthrown by the world proletariat. Global capitalism is organized in the capitalist League of Nations, the world proletariat in the Industrial Workers of the World. The second International is the... more
Italian translation of "Cruel Festivals: Furio Jesi and the Critique of Political Autonomy," first published in Theory & Event, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 1018–1046. Translated by Federico Della Sala
Introduction to the web-portal „Wir Bayern sind keine Russen“ – München und die Russische Revolution: https://www.osmikon.de/themen/muenchen-und-die-russische-revolution/ Introduction to be found at:... more