Ultimately, politicians did not "deliberately embarked on war as a way out of their insoluble domestic, social and political problems." ... Mayer thus points to a pre-revolutionary state of affairs in all of Europe, which lead to an intense "interconnection of domestic politics and foreign politics." In his analysis, Mayer points out that Germany's social issue pushed politicians to want war in order to provide a solution to internal problems. ... The author agrees that the military were more influential than the politicians and points to a certain "spirit of fatalism" that made the Germa...

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The Liberals were a law-abiding, non-violent revolutionary group. ... They wanted a system of government that was democratic, such as the one used in Britain, this meant an elected parliament shared power with the monarch. ... During this time the leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin, was exiled to Switzerland as he disagreed with the revolutionaries who supported and co-operated with the Provisional Government. ... War communism was during civil war in 1918. During this time small factories nationalised, workers became under government control, private trading was banned and food was strictly rat...

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