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> And to remember that WW1 was ended, in part, by labour action: the October Revolution in Russia, and the Kiel Mutiny in Germany. I don't know much about Russ
by est31 4y ago
> And to remember that WW1 was ended, in part, by labour action: the October Revolution in Russia, and the Kiel Mutiny in Germany.
I don't know much about Russia, Germany certainly has given Lenin a train ticket so that he could participate in that revolution, because they thought that it would help their interests. But for Germany, the theory that Germany lost the war because of the revolution is the so called "Dolchstoßlegende", a right wing conspiracy theory. Germany has already lost the war before that revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
- arlcode 4y agoYes and the mutiny did happen in part because the German navy planned for a Last-Hurrah-Suicide mission to "die an honorful death" The sailors were not cool with that and decided to not be killed on the final stretch of a pointless war That was the final straw and was used to kick of the revolution. The monarchy already had lost most of its authority by that point.
- lostlogin 4y ago> Germany certainly has given Lenin a train ticket This was fascinating and amazingly conniving. The Churchill quote, saying Lenin was smuggled back into Russia "in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus" is quite the imagery. Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale covers it well.