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The great effect that the Congress of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils had on the later progression of the Revolution, and the insight that its eventful course offers into the surging battles of ideas in the Revolution, make it advisable to dwell on it somewhat longer.
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Richard Müller (1880–1943), German metalworker and socialist political activist and thinker, one of the principal advocates of council democracy and opponents of parliamentarism during the Revolution, founding leader of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards in January 1918, chairman of the Executive Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils after November 1918, and a major intellectual influence on Karl Korsch.
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Ostrowski, M.S. (2020). The First Congress of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils in Germany. In: Eduard Bernstein on the German Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27719-2_11
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