Researching the German revolution
Added 2022-06-12 10:31:24 +0000 UTCCurrently working on research for a video on the German revolution of 1918-19. This is such a fascinating and important topic that I really wanna do it right, so it's gonna be a big project. I hope you'll be as excited about it as I am.
I've been mainly drawing on 3 different books on the revolution so far, each from a different political vantage point:
Sebastian Haffner's Failure of a Revolution, perhaps the most moderate of the three, which emphasizes the lost possibility of a compromise between workers' councils and a national assembly,
Pierre Broué's The German Revolution, 1917-1923, which is mainly told from the perspective of the German communist party and its predecessors,
and Ralf Hoffroge's Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution, which focuses on the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and workers' councils, and specifically Richard Müller, an extremely important but overlooked revolutionary.
I'm hoping that by taking in the different perspectives I'll avoid some of the biases that common narratives about the revolution have had throughout the decades.
Recently I've also been reading Nathaniel Flakin's Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide, to get a sense of space and location.
If you have any input, recommendations or questions let me know!
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A former collegue of mind wrote his dissertation on the perception of revolutionary spaces in the German revolution, sadly that book is only available in German like a lot of the literature in that section. Not sure, if you can read German, but if so I can have a look if I have anything usefull to share in my digital library.
2022-06-13 18:27:26 +0000 UTCWould you say the Iron Dice podcast takes the side of the Social-Democrats?
Cuck Philosophy
2022-06-12 17:51:47 +0000 UTCThis sounds really good, I listened to the iron dice podcast so I'm interested to see a different take on the same events
Galewolf
2022-06-12 13:42:17 +0000 UTC
