History A-Level
Competing visions of democracy and socialism
What Competing visions of democracy and socialism means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Ebert and Scheidemann were moderate socialists who sought parliamentary democracy, while Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacists pushed for a socialist revolution.
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- Paper 3, Option 37.2: Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited - 2 The birth of democratic Germany, 1917–19 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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