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GCSE History · key term
A German revolutionary communist group led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, associated with the January 1919 uprising in Berlin.
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Paper 3
Revise: Early ChallengesRosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht led the Spartacists. In January 1919, the dismissal of Berlin’s police chief, Emil Eichhorn, who was popular with workers, helped trigger mass protests and an uprising. More than 100,000 workers demonstrated, and rebels occupied newspaper offices and communications buildings in Berlin.
Keep the two uprisings distinct: the government used the Freikorps against the Spartacists, but a workers’ general strike defeated the Kapp Putsch.
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