Contents ← All Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or BarbarismHome / Marxist Corpus / Wellred Catalogue / Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism Preface Introduction Opening Drama News From Germany Dual Power Emperor With No Clothes The Armistice Workers Held Power Barbarism Learn From History Chapter One: The Rise of German Social Democracy Growth of German Capitalism Marx and Engels Engels Distorted Revisionism International Response Karl Kautsky Differences With Lenin Lenin and Kautsky Break With Kautsky Millerandism The General Strike Anti-War Feelings The Great Betrayal Epoch of Imperialism All Eyes on German SPD Stunning Blow Zimmerwald Lenin at Zimmerwald The Spartacists Internationale Group Growing Opposition Junius Pamphlet Birth of USPD February Revolution Strike Wave The Russian Revolution Brest-Litovsk Luxemburg and the Russian Revolution Chapter Two: In the throes of Revolution Prince Von Baden Talk of Insurrection Mutiny Spreads Revolution Spreads Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils Hate It Like Sin Ebert Becomes Chancellor Long Live the Republic! Traditional Parties ‘Their Government’ People’s Commissars New Breed Ebert and the Generals What Kind of Democracy? The Problem of the National Assembly Renegade Kautsky National Congress of Councils Tactical Mistake Socialisation Left-Wing Communism Counter-Revolution Raises Its Head Peoples’ Naval Division Witch-Hunt Begins Communist Party Founded Rebellious Youth New Born Chapter Three: Counter-Revolution Raises its Head The Spartacist Uprising Dismissal of Eichhorn Traitors to the Proletariat Deliberations ‘Dogs of War’ How Could You? Luxemburg, Liebknecht Murdered Friedrichsfelde Luxemburg’s ‘Error’ National Assembly Election Freikorps Intervene ‘Schiessbefehl’ Works Councils Bavarian Soviet Republic Chapter Four: The Kapp Putsch March 1920 Two Counter-Revolutionary Wings Learning the Lessons The Split Political Polarisation Building the Comintern The Halle Conference School of Communism New VKPD Leadership Theory of the Offensive Unmitigated Disaster Ecci Supports German ‘Lefts’ Lenin on Germany Lines Drawn Third Comintern Congress The United Front Tactic The Case of Paul Levi Battle Lines Drawn Chapter Five: The Spoils of War Squeeze until the Pips Squeak Carthaginian Peace French Occupation of the Ruhr Hyperinflation Revolutionary Situation Looking the Wrong Way Anti-Fascist Day Preparing the Insurrection October Days Hamburg Uprising Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch The Aftermath of 1923 Defeat Lessons of October Chapter Six: The Interregnum Struggle Sharpens Socialism in One Country Stabilisation Eight-Hour Day Abolished Economic Revival Soviet-German Relations Uprising Still Remains on the Agenda Fifth World Congress Removal of Fischer-Maslow 1925 Presidential Election Open Letter The 1928 General Election Young Plan The Third Period May Day 1929 The 1929 Crash Brüning Government Chapter Seven: Fascism’s Rise to Power Big Business Turns to Hitler The Fascist Henry Ford Reichstag Election in September 1930 Neurosis of the Petty Bourgeoisie Stalinism and Fascism Violence Spreads The ‘Red’ Referendum Berlin Transport Strike Critical Situation Hindenburg Returned July 1932 Election November 1932 Election Repression and Bonapartism Hitler Becomes Chancellor ‘Legal Means’ The Reichstag Fire March 1933 Election Chapter Eight: The Nazi Terror No Resistance May Day Appeal Destroying the Unions SPD Banned The Stalinist Response Defiance Night of the Long Knives Stalin and Hitler ‘Left’ Historians Austrian Uprising Underground Resistance Situation Reassessed Reform or New Party? Germany Prepares for War Second World War General’s Plot Fourth International Future Prospects Appendix One: Hitler’s British Connections January Club Royal Family Appendix Two: The Case of Béla Kun Glossary Bibliography Back toGermany 1918-1933: Socialism or BarbarismNext chapterPreface