Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University

• Introduction Part I: The thirty years war: the Revolution as contemporary history, 1919-48 1 The German Revolution in the Weimar Republic 2 Alternatives to fascism: The 1918-19 Revolution and efforts to construct a unified left, 1933-48 Part II: Divided Europe and the politics of history: ‘1918’ in the two Germanys 3 Revolution betrayed or democracy saved? West German debates, 1949-79 4 Who were the Spartacists? East Germany’s ‘1918’ 5 1989 and all that: The German Revolution of 1918-19 and the passing of the GDR Part III: Forgotten or rediscovered? Debates on the German Revolution since the 1990s 6 The experience of revolution: Soldiers, sailors, civilians, young people 7 Urban space and the political imaginary of the Revolution 8 The German Revolution in European and global context: International and transnational perspectivesConclusionIndex

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University

• Introduction Part I: The thirty years war: the Revolution as contemporary history, 1919-48 1 The German Revolution in the Weimar Republic 2 Alternatives to fascism: The 1918-19 Revolution and efforts to construct a unified left, 1933-48 Part II: Divided Europe and the politics of history: ‘1918’ in the two Germanys 3 Revolution betrayed or democracy saved? West German debates, 1949-79 4 Who were the Spartacists? East Germany’s ‘1918’ 5 1989 and all that: The German Revolution of 1918-19 and the passing of the GDR Part III: Forgotten or rediscovered? Debates on the German Revolution since the 1990s 6 The experience of revolution: Soldiers, sailors, civilians, young people 7 Urban space and the political imaginary of the Revolution 8 The German Revolution in European and global context: International and transnational perspectivesConclusionIndex

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University

• Introduction Part I: The thirty years war: the Revolution as contemporary history, 1919-48 1 The German Revolution in the Weimar Republic 2 Alternatives to fascism: The 1918-19 Revolution and efforts to construct a unified left, 1933-48 Part II: Divided Europe and the politics of history: ‘1918’ in the two Germanys 3 Revolution betrayed or democracy saved? West German debates, 1949-79 4 Who were the Spartacists? East Germany’s ‘1918’ 5 1989 and all that: The German Revolution of 1918-19 and the passing of the GDR Part III: Forgotten or rediscovered? Debates on the German Revolution since the 1990s 6 The experience of revolution: Soldiers, sailors, civilians, young people 7 Urban space and the political imaginary of the Revolution 8 The German Revolution in European and global context: International and transnational perspectivesConclusionIndex