Bremen Soviet Republic

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The Bremen Soviet Republic, also translated as the Bremen Council Republic (German: Bremer Räterepublik), was an unrecognised revolutionary state in Germany formed during the German revolution of 1918–1919 in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Although not formally declared until 10 January 1919, the regime it represented presided in the industrial port city of Bremen from 14 November 1918 until its suppression on 4 February 1919 by army and irregular forces engaged by the provisional government in Berlin. On 10 November 1918, a Workers' and Soldier's Council deposed the Senate of Bremen which had governed the Free Hansa City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen) under the German Empire. After offering assurances for private property and soliciting the cooperation of the existing administrative bureaucracy, on 6 January 1919 the Council called an election limited to members of the left-wing parties and aligned trade unions: the Majority Social Democrats (MSPD), the Independent...

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