Spartacus League
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The Spartacus League was a left revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I and immediately thereafter. It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, K
Rosa Luxemburg, c. 1900
Clara Zetkin (left) with Rosa Luxemburg in 1910.
Participants of the Reich Conference of the Spartacus League, 1 January 1916
Karl Liebknecht, July 1915
Spartacist uprising
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The Spartacist uprising, also known as the January uprising or, more rarely, Bloody Week, was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from 5–12 January 1919. It occurred in connection with the Ger
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…attempted to involve the soldiers' councils of the Berlin regiments in the overthrow of Friedrich Ebert's government in what came to be known as the Spartacist uprising. It failed when the Reich army that had assembled around Berlin, along with newly formed Freikorps units, put down the uprising on the orders of Gustav…
Soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate during the Spartacist uprising
The Spartacus League in a show of force on Berlin's main thoroughfare, 18 December 1918
Emil Eichhorn
Eugen Ernst