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Witness to the German Revolution : writings from Germany, 1923 / Victor Serge ; translated from the French by Ian Birchall.
Van Pelt Library DD249 .S37213 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Serge, Victor, 1890-1947.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2011
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Germany--History--Revolution, 1918.
- Germany.
- History.
- Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.
- Politics and government.
- Political culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Serge, Victor, 1890-1947.
- Serge, Victor.
- Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 297 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- When German workers rose up to bring an end to the carnage of World Wax I, they began a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the twentieth century. Inspired by events unfolding in revolutionary Russia, the German working class not only deposed their autocratic leader, but began a contest for the democratic control of their society from below.
- In 1923, amidst skyrocketing inflation, an expanding proto-fascist movement, and a French occupation of Germany's important Ruhr valley, the fledgling Communist International dispatched Victor Serge to Berlin to document the struggle. These moving reports from the battlefront provide illuminating insights into the mood of the masses on the eve of a revolution that could have been. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chronology
- Letter from Germany to a French comrade
- Conference impressions
- Balance sheet of a year
- Anniversary of January 15 : Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- News from Germany
- A document on German patriotism
- Amid the collapse of bourgeois Germany
- Reports from Germany
- The general strike in Germany
- The rich against the nation
- The rich against culture
- A fifty-day armed vigil
- Biographies
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- "This translation first published in 1997 in London by Redwords"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1608460851
- 9781608460854
- OCLC:
- 669754968
- Publisher Number:
- 99944290698
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