Spartacist uprising

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The Spartacist uprising was a failed 1919 communist revolt in Berlin led by the Spartacus League, aiming to establish a socialist government in post–World War I Germany.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf armed conflict
communist uprising
revolt
uprising
hasAlternateName January uprising of 1919 in Berlin
hasCause discontent with the Weimar provisional government
influence of the Russian Revolution of 1917
political instability after World War I
hasConsequence death of Karl Liebknecht
death of Rosa Luxemburg
strengthening of the Weimar government
suppression of the revolt by government forces
hasCountry Germany
hasEndDate 1919-01-12
hasHistoricalContext post–World War I Germany
hasHistoricalSignificance key event in early Weimar Republic politics
turning point for the German communist movement
hasIdeology communism
revolutionary socialism
hasKeyFigure Friedrich Ebert
Gustav Noske
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg
hasLanguageContext German
hasLeader Spartacus League
hasLocation Berlin
hasMethod armed street fighting
general strike
hasOpponent Council of the People’s Deputies
Freikorps
Social Democratic Party of Germany
hasOpposingForce Freikorps paramilitaries
German government troops
hasOutcome consolidation of moderate social democratic power
hasParticipant Communist Party of Germany
Spartacus League
hasPoliticalGoal establish a socialist government in Germany
hasRegion Prussia
hasResult failure
hasStartDate 1919-01-05
hasTemporalContext interwar period
hasTypeOfConflict civil conflict
urban insurrection
hasYear 1919
isPartOf German Revolution of 1918–1919
tookPlaceIn Weimar Republic
tookPlaceInCity Berlin

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