Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Political Instability and Extremism
1919-1924
- Polarisation of politics
- Hard to form a coalition
- growth in votes for left and right
- 10 coalitions from Feb 1919 - 1923
- Continuity of policies
- Article 48 used 136 time
- Spartacist Revolt
- Spartacist League
- Hard line Marxists committed to workers
revolution- associated with USPD.
- Led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- January 1919 organised an armed uprising on the streets of Berlin
- Seized buildings
- Declared the overthrow of government
- But poorly supported a working class supported the SPD
- Not a serious threat
- Savagely suppressed by Groener using the Friekorps
- 150 Korps
- 400,000 men
- Spartacists crushed within a week
- Liebknecht and Luxemburg executed
- Constitute Assembly elections conducted in aftermath but
remember the legacy of divisions on the left
- Far left wing threat remained
- Frustrations with Ebert comprimises
- Stinnes Legien aggreement
- Ebert Groener pact
- Right wing still in power
- Economic Conditions
- Inflation
- Shortages of goods
- Influence of Comintern
- Communist international
- Set up after the Russian
Revolution 1917 to support
communist parties in other
countries to seize power