Chapter IX. A Revolt Which Became a Revolution. 133
Mutiny at Kiel--Troops fire on mutinous sailors--Demands of the mutineers granted--Noske arrives--The red flag replaces the imperial standard--Prince Henry's flight--Independent Socialists and Spartacans seize their opportunity--Soviets erected throughout Northwestern Germany--Official cowardice at Swinemünde--Noske becomes Governor of Kiel.
Chapter X. The Revolution Reaches Berlin. 147
Lansing announces that the allied governments accept Wilson's fourteen points with one reservation--Max appeals to the people--Hamburg revolutionaries reach Berlin--Government troops brought to the capital--Independent Socialists meet in the Reichstag building--The revolution spreads--Majority Socialists join hands with the revolutionaries--Supposedly loyal troops mutiny--Revolution.
Ebert becomes Premier for a day--The German Republic proclaimed--Liebknecht at the royal palace--Officers hunted down in the streets--The rape of the _bourgeois_ newspapers by revolutionaries--The first shooting--Ebert issues a proclamation and an appeal--A red Sunday--Revolutionary meeting at the Circus Busch--A six-man cabinet formed--The _Vollzugsrat_--Far-reaching reforms are decreed.
Chapter XII. "The German Socialistic Republic." 177
The end of the dynasties--The Kaiser flees--Central Soviet displays moderate tendencies--Wholesale jail-releases--The police disarmed--_Die neue Freiheit_--A Red Guard is planned, but meets opposition from the soldiers--Liebknecht organizes the deserters--Armistice terms a blow to the cabinet--The blockade is extended.
Germany's armed forces collapse--Some effects of "the new freedom"--The Reichstag is declared dissolved--The cabinet's helplessness--Opposition to a national assembly--Radicals dominate the _Vollzugsrat_--Charges are made against it--The Red Soldiers' League--The first bloodshed under the new régime.
Chapter XIV. The Majority Socialists in Control. 209
Front soldiers return--The central congress of Germany's Soviets--Radicals in an insignificant minority--A new _Vollzugsrat_ of Majority Socialists appointed--The People's Marine Division revolts--Independent Socialists leave the cabinet--The Spartacus League organized--The national government's authority flouted--Aggressions by Czechs and Poles--An epidemic of strikes.