The Bavarian Soviet Republic was one of the Many other German Soviet republics that appeared after the fall of the German Empire following World War 1, inspired by not only the Bolshevik Revolution but also the Current Spartacist uprising Led by the Spartacus League Founded by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and others.

The revolution in Germany that overthrew the unworthy Kaiser Wilhelm II, at the tail end of World War I, ended with the establishment of a newly democratic Weimar Republic with the Constitution of 1919. This shaky young republic was threatened by far-right nationalist and monarchist parties such as the DNVP and most famously the NSDAP.

In November 1918, when the imperial government was dissolved and Germany surrendered to the Allies, control over the Bavarian state government was assumed by Kurt Eisner, a politician at the head of the USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party), a left-wing splinter of the already socialist SPD. Although a left-wing socialist himself, Eisner rejected the idea of communist revolution and worked within the new democratic framework set up by the SPD in Berlin, stepping down when the USPD was voted out of power at the beginning of 1919.

More extreme left-wing elements in Munich did support a communist revolution, however, and Eisner’s assassination by a young right-wing aristocrat just after his defeat in the polls agitated these activists to more decisive action. On April 6, 1919, USPD politician and modernist playwright Ernst Toller led a takeover of the Bavarian state government together with other left-wing socialists and anarchists, who declared the establishment of an independent Bavarian Soviet Republic. Toller’s government naturally made contact with the Bolshevik-controlled government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Toller's goverment would be overthrow by the KPD leader Eugen Levine. Having received the blessings of Lenin – who at the annual May Day celebration in Red Square said: "The liberated working class is celebrating its anniversary not only in Soviet Russia but in ... Soviet Bavaria" Leviné began to enact more hardline communist reforms, which included forming a "Red Army" from factory workers, seizing cash, food supplies, and privately owned guns, expropriating luxurious apartments and giving them to the homeless and placing factories under the ownership and control of their workers. One of Munich's main churches was taken over and made into a revolutionary temple dedicated to the "Goddess of Reason." Bavaria was to be in the vanguard of the Bolshevization of Europe, with all workers to receive military training.

The republican Social Democratic government in Berlin headed by President Friedrich Ebert decided to order paramilitary units the Freikorps, to bring Munich back into the Reich. The tens of thousands of regular army and irregular Freikorps units steamrolled the Munich Red Guards and soon captured Levine and co. The month-long Bavarian Soviet Republic was dead, and with it the last serious left-wing threat to the Weimar Republic.

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  • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    The failures of the German revolutionaries, or perhaps more specifically the betrayal of the SPD, is so haunting. Looking back at 1919 and it seems things were on a knifes edge from being a glorious revolution. The mutinies of French soldiers lends some possibility that a successful revolution would at least not have been invaded on that front. I know the west invaded Russia to stop the bolsheviks but essentially continuing a war that had dragged on for years, on the same lines, seems less likely. At the very least it'd give the soviets more time, likely not being intervened in. Looking at nazi Germany and seeing how modern they were, one has to wonder how great a communist Germany would have been. Likely reduced in efficiency industrially and militarily, because capital flight, lack of foreign investment, and probably a more destructive interim- I imagine an actual civil war- it still would have been powerful, and insanely helpful to the soviets and perhaps Hungary as well. What could have been. God damn the SPD, literal fascist enablers.

    I often wonder what could have gone differently. Success in the Soviet-Polish war, better organization and sense of timing by the KPD, the SPD not governing, and this one I always come back to: lack of American participation in WWI. Perhaps the war goes on into 1919, Germans are futhur immiserated, and maybe more Freikorps fucks eat a bullet. It's awful, but also sets the conditions for revolutionary actions more than our time line. I think anyway. So, death to America, as usual.