What if the Sparticist's revolution succeeded ?

I think that this would be particularly bad for Poland now surrounded by 2 hostile communist states.

Would an alliance between the soviets and the Germans happen? I am sceptical that a quick rapprochement could happen immediately after WW1. But is it possible?

And finally what does this mean in terms of German reparation payments, would they refuse to pay them?
 
It is really hard to see the Sparticist uprising succeeding. Germany was not Russia. There was a much larger middle class, a much larger reformist labor movement, the army did not consist of land-hungry radicalized peasants-in-uniform, and there were the "unofficial" Freikorps as well. And in addition, of course, Noske and Ebert had seen what had happened in Russia and had no intention of sharing Kerensky's fate. Finally, if all else failed, couldn't there be Allied intervention to prevent "Bolshevism" from taking over Germany?

It's not just retrospective wisdom to say the odds against success were very high. Rosa Luxemburg sensed it at the time, but felt she had no choice but to go along with the uprising once her comrades had decided on it.
 
Could it not be done by a different faction winning control in Russia who want to immediately spread the world revolution rather than just follow a policy of communism in one country ? Because then then they could aid it potentially.

Furthermore at this time influenza was ripe, the government had very little control,the German people were starving and anarchy reigned in Berlin,and so if more regular people were affected by these things more would engage in the revolution.

As for the Freikorps they weren't as good as many thought, and lacked as the Kaap putsch showed.
 
I don't think that the OTL Spartacist revolution could succeed in any recognisable form, but I do think that if the 1918 revolutions as a whole had been derailed, then the potential for a socialist uprising would have been greater. Maybe if the Imperial Government decided to declare a state of emergency and clamp down on the SPD and Liberals calling for a republic and peace. As a result the moderate leadership of the SPD is arrested, which means that when the far-left begins to rise up a good chunk of the SPD falls in behind them, whilst many of the middle-class liberals who would have backed the government against a communist uprising would be alienated due to harsh government repression.

Could it not be done by a different faction winning control in Russia who want to immediately spread the world revolution rather than just follow a policy of communism in one country ? Because then then they could aid it potentially.

Socialism in one country wouldn't have be adopted until much later in the late 20s. At this point in time the Bolsheviks were 100% for a global revolution, and expected it to happen. However, they would also end up too embroiled in their own conflicts to offer assistance to the Spartacists.
 
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