Spartacist Revolt

• Who were the Spartacists?

  Left wing extremists
• What were the events of the Spartacist Revolt?

  • Ebert sacked the police chief (4 January 1919)
  • Thousands of workers took to the streets
  • Spartacists saw oppurtunity and took over the Government's newspaper and telegraph bureau
  • Tried to organise a general strike in Berlin
• How were the Spartacists dealt with?

  WR sent Freikorps (ex-soliders) to put them down
• What did the Spartacists want?

  • Equality
  • Control by the people
  • Abolish private ownership