The German Revolution of 1918

Bolshevik ideology was founded on the notion that western powers needed to be overthrown in their own socialist revolutions, and especially germany. All of this appeared very much to be the pieces of historical necessity falling into place. The austro hungarian empire is over. The last remnants of the holy roman empire are over. That world is done. And indeed we have never been so near to an international proletarian revolution as now," he says.