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From Germany and the Revolution in Russia 1915-1918, ed. Z. A. B. Zeman, 1958 The committee of the Reichstag, inquiring, in the early years of the Weimar Republic into the causes of the downfall of the German Empire,1 . . . Interested, as this committee was, in the problem of �responsibility� for the breakdown of 1918, it may have regarded this feature of German policy in the Great War as outside the scope of its inquiry. Some Social Democrat members of the Committee may have had reasons not to proceed with it. Yet in 1921 Bernstein, the prominent Social Democrat, wrote two articles for the Volksrecht [Vorwarts ?] discussing this aspect of German War-time policy.2
From Russia and History's Turning Point by Alexander Kerensky, 1965 In 1923 Eduard Bernstein, one of the leaders of the German Social Democratic Party and the first revisionist of the Marxist doctrine, asked me to call on him. In the conversation that followed, Bernstein informed me that he was investigating the links between the agents of the German government and the Lenin group of Bolsheviks. He asked me what data the Russian government may have had relative to this matter, and I told him all I knew. All our information had pointed to Stockholm and to the activities there of Lucius, the German ambassador, and his agents. But, I added, we had no direct information as to what had been going on in Berlin. Nor did we know how the links between the German government and the Bolsheviks had been forged. Bernstein, in his turn, revealed everything he had discovered about this matter from the secret archives of the various ministries. Bernstein told me further that he had been unable to complete his investigation. In the previous year, he had published his first article on the connection between Lenin and Berlin, President Ebert had immediately summoned him to his office, where the minister of foreign affairs and other high officials and representatives of the army were also present. Bernstein was warned that he would be charged with treason if he published any further articles on the subject.
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Selected bibliographic Bernstein, Eduard, 1850-1932. Title Selected writings of Eduard Bernstein, 1900-1921 / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Manfred Steger. Publisher Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1996. |
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