Revolutionary Marxian socialists agree that socialism must be based on abundance – high technology, industrialization and mass production of goods. Because the first socialist experiment in Russia had none of these things, Russia looked to Germany for support because: a) Germany was an industrial powerhouse; and b) Germany had the most organized socialist party in Europe. This article tracks the events in the revolution and shows us that the revolution was betrayed by the Social Democrats.
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This one is better.
Too admiring of the Bolsheviks, but an excellent account of Germany, especially the accommodationist soldiers-and-worker’s councils and the idiocy of January 1919: https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2018-11-09/a-hundred-years-on-lessons-of-the-german-revolution.