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A myth-busting popular history of the German Revolution focusing on the roles of women, workers and ordinary people

Trade Review
'An excellent work with the focus on the grassroots out of which developed the revolutionary mass movements of the sailors and workers bringing peace and democracy to Germany' -- Ottokar Luban, International Rosa Luxemburg Society
'A rigourous analysis and narrative history of the working class in a place and time where the idea of the emancipation of humanity was a real possibility' -- Raquel Varela, Labor Historian, New University of Lisbon, IISG Honorary Fellow

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mario Kessler
Introduction: What German Revolution?
1. Industrialization and the Emergence of the German Working Class
2. The Rise of Popular Radicalism
3. War, Suffering and Resistance
4. The Road to the November Revolution
5. The Kaiser Goes, the Generals Remain
6. Provocation, Revolt and Repression
7. Women in the War and the Revolution
8. Death Agony of the Revolution
Conclusion
Notes
Index

A Peoples History of the German Revolution

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      Publisher Pluto Press
      Published 20 June 2018
      ISBN-13 9780745337111
      978-0745337111
      ISBN-10 0745337112
      Also in:
      First World War Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A myth-busting popular history of the German Revolution focusing on the roles of women, workers and ordinary people

      Trade Review
      'An excellent work with the focus on the grassroots out of which developed the revolutionary mass movements of the sailors and workers bringing peace and democracy to Germany' -- Ottokar Luban, International Rosa Luxemburg Society
      'A rigourous analysis and narrative history of the working class in a place and time where the idea of the emancipation of humanity was a real possibility' -- Raquel Varela, Labor Historian, New University of Lisbon, IISG Honorary Fellow

      Table of Contents

      Foreword by Mario Kessler
      Introduction: What German Revolution?
      1. Industrialization and the Emergence of the German Working Class
      2. The Rise of Popular Radicalism
      3. War, Suffering and Resistance
      4. The Road to the November Revolution
      5. The Kaiser Goes, the Generals Remain
      6. Provocation, Revolt and Repression
      7. Women in the War and the Revolution
      8. Death Agony of the Revolution
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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