"An excellent and much needed work with the focus on the grassroots out of which developed the revolutionary mass movements of the sailors and workers bringing peace and democracy to Germany."
--Ottokar Luban, International Rosa Luxemburg Society

"This book provides a rigorous analysis and narrative history of the working class in a place and time where the idea of the emancipation of humanity was a real possibility; the German revolution."--Raquel Varela, New University of Lisbon, IISG Honorary Fellow

William A. Pelz is Director of the Institute of Working Class History in Chicago and a Professor of History at Elgin Community College. His recent works include Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (Greenwood Press, 2015), The Eugene V. Debs Reader (The Merlin Press Ltd, 2014, (Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (Peter Lang Publishing, 2007), and A People's History of Modern Europe (Pluto, 2016).