Ebert becomes Premier for a day—The German Republic proclaimed—Liebknecht at the royal palace—Officers hunted down in the streets—The rape of the bourgeois newspapers by revolutionaries—The first shooting—Ebert issues a proclamation and an appeal—A red Sunday—Revolutionary meeting at the Circus Busch—A six-man cabinet formed—The Vollzugsrat—Far-reaching reforms are decreed.
Chapter XII. "The German Socialistic Republic." [177]
The end of the dynasties—The Kaiser flees—Central Soviet displays moderate tendencies—Wholesale jail-releases—The police disarmed—Die neue Freiheit—A Red Guard is planned, but meets opposition from the soldiers—Liebknecht organizes the deserters—Armistice terms a blow to the cabinet—The blockade is extended.
Chapter XIII. "The New Freedom." [195]
Germany's armed forces collapse—Some effects of "the new freedom"—The Reichstag is declared dissolved—The cabinet's helplessness—Opposition to a national assembly—Radicals dominate the Vollzugsrat—Charges are made against it—The Red Soldiers' League—The first bloodshed under the new régime.
Chapter XIV. The Majority Socialists in Control. [209]
Front soldiers return—The central congress of Germany's Soviets—Radicals in an insignificant minority—A new Vollzugsrat of Majority Socialists appointed—The People's Marine Division revolts—Independent Socialists leave the cabinet—The Spartacus League organized—The national government's authority flouted—Aggressions by Czechs and Poles—An epidemic of strikes.
Chapter XV. Liebknecht Tries to Overthrow the Government; Is Arrested and Killed. [225]
The first Bolshevist uprising—Prominent Berlin newspapers seized by the Spartacans—The Independent Socialists' double-dealing—Capture of the Vorwärts plant—Ledebour, Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg arrested—Liebknecht and Luxemburg killed—The Bolsheviki turn their attention to coast cities.
Chapter XVI. The National Assembly. [237]