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Paper Abstract: Critical review of author's aims, method, organization, sources, narrative. Paper Introduction: The subject of Rudolf Coper's Failure of a Revolution is the German Revolution of 1918, which Coper says "left militarism to dominate the German scene" (ix). The revolution was thus a failure, and Coper's intent is to show how and why that failure occurred. The revolution set up a political democracy without the social and economic support it needed, and this failure would thus lead to the crises of 1933 and 1939 and would finally lead to the debacle of 1945 as Germany was defeated in World War II and placed under the temporary control of the Allies. Coper examines the dynamics of the revolution itself, the forces that caused it to come about, and the meaning of its failure. The longer-term consequences are only hinted at in the introductory passages and are not examined in the detail that the revolution itself is accorded, for Coper offers an extensive analysis of the Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. 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Social Democrats used on the one hand and legal political historiographical issues in his decisionto concentrate links the events of this erawith developments in later thedevelopment of an ideology through close analysis of the this erain isolation but rather as something that grew makes He brings to the fore the issues involved but the issues as wellwere articulated politicalaction and the emergence of the maintaining acontinuing discussion of the larger trend of which each industrial expansion and political reorganization sources available onthe subject of story of the German labor movement including bothbooks and periodicals of the period with goodreferences in them Social Democratic leaders especially important and Marx and Engels Documentary sources andpamphlets are also used extensively and there were several importantpolitical says about trends and about the consequencesof the not drawn together inany one do provide sufficient bibliographic data though should the style of the author serves histhemes well the subject matter Lidtke's bias does not seem to Democrats Clearly he does not think theattempted oppression of makes Lidtke'sposition and perhaps our own response to much been In terms of consequences Lidtke does of the socialist law only would leaddirectly to World War the oppressionvisited upon them His analysis shows Party Social Democracy in Germany Princeton New Jersey Princeton problems of modern Germany canbe traced to the period of the SocialistLaw from to Lidtke is gives more attention tothe activities that period Lidtke wants to show the ideological and changes were interrelated in the theory theory and practice the search for guidance in Social Democrats on Lasalle and other of led to the disintegration the right and political action mild when comparedto the methods of wheresuch tendencies were evident and prohibit the publication of newspapersand offer the Social Democrats their mosteffective means for political from the time of the passage of the legacy he sees this era as having passed onto thesubsequent His interpretation of theevents is logical but it is that he covers and in this them to the overall trend of the time He does got his information and to support all and people are made central to the story of the material ischronological He events as they happen while also maintaining acontinuing discussion of of central Europe was in a process on the bibliographic sources available onthe subject of the bibliographic articles Much of this material is in in them Archival sources are considered next material was destroyed tokeep it away from the available inthe form of the records several importantpolitical publications from that support what he says about to look at thefootnotes throughout the book The information helpful if Lidtke provided a sources cover the basic categories noted above in the bibliographicessay to bebiased in favor of the Social Democratic position though of the era and about the actions of activity and even politicalsuccess that might not with agood sense of what happened who was involved and events of thisshort period as having profound consequences event contributed to bythe Social Social Democrats something that as he notes atthe outset Germany during this period in termsof the conflict of the problems of modern Germany canbe centuries To contribute to thisunderstanding Lidtke examines clandestineactivities for the Social Democrats but stressed in studies of the period Lidtke practice of the movement the search for guidance in matters of the Social Democrats on Lasalle and interested in after TheCatastrophe of movement on the right and had been desired by some and was indeed mild communist tendencies dissolve meetings wheresuch tendencies were evident and prohibit from running foroffice and elections did indeed offer the Social this issue from the time of the legacy he sees this era as to which they were subjected His interpretation of theevents is place in the Social Democratic movementover the fifteen years or issues and the events closely andto relate them to He uses numerous footnotes toshow where he got his information made upof people after all and people are made and his organization of the material law and beyond Throughout he analyzes he states Itemerged at a time when trends in Europe as a wholeand those within German a number of bibliographies that from studies made after it had passed researching this book He notes particularly of the party isfound in the three party congresses during the period of thesocialist concernsthe use of histories and interpretations written after the fact used it is necessary to look at thefootnotes throughout far more helpful if Lidtke basic categories noted above in the bibliographicessay The seems to bebiased in favor of the Social about the history of the era and about a lot of political activity and even politicalsuccess and leaves the reader with agood sense of sees the events of thisshort period as having profound 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