Author: Hoffmann, Adolph [ Prussia. Landesversammlung ]
Title: Die Berliner Putsche : Standrecht und Belagerungszustand : Die Beratung der Verfassunggebenden Preussischen Landesversammlung..,
Description: Berlin, Buchhandlung Vorwärts, 1919. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 188 pp. Rubbed. Cover heavily foxed. Some page browning. Just Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Die Berliner Putsche : Standrecht und Belagerungszustand : die Beratung der Verfassunggebenden Preussischen Landesversammlung u¨ber den Antrag des Abgeordneten Adolf Hoffmann und Genossen auf Aufhebung des Standrechtes und des Belagerungszustandes : Verhandlungen vom 14. 15. 17. und 19. März 1919 (stenographischer Bericht). Anhang: Das Programm der preussischen Regierung. Erklärung des Ministerpräsidenten Hirsch am 25. März 1919" ["On 9 November 1918, the day on which Ebert becomes chancellor, Liebknecht proclaims in Berlin the birth of a German Socialist republic along Russian soviet lines. On January 1 the Spartacus League is transformed into the Communist party of Germany. Five days later a vast crowd gathers in Berlin, demanding revolution. Though urged by Rosa Luxembourg to proceed cautiously, they seize many of the public buildings in the capital. Confronted by the strong possibility of a successful communist revolution, as has happened in Russia not much more than a year earlier, Ebert deploys army units and right-wing volunteer militias armed with machine guns and artillery. The result, after several days of violent street fighting, is the death of more than 1000 revolutionaries and the collapse of their uprising. On January 15 Liebknecht and Luxemburg are captured and summarily shot. Luxemburg's body is unceremoniously dumped in a canal in the centre of the capital city. Four days later elections are held for a new national assembly, to be entrusted with the task of devising a constitution for the

Keywords: German Political History, 1918 Revolution, Prussia, Germany, Politics, Berlin Putsch, Communism, Communist, Spartacus