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"The subject of Rudolf Coper's Failure of a Revolution is the German Revolution of 1918, which Coper says "left militarism to dominate the German scene" (ix). The revolution was thus a failure, and Coper's intent is to show how and why that failure occurred. The revolution set up a political democracy without the social and economic support it needed, and this failure would thus lead to the crises of 1933 and 1939 and would finally lead to the debacle of 1945 as Germany was defeated in World War II and placed under the temporary control of the Allies. Coper examines the dynamics of the revolution itself, the forces that caused it to come about, and the meaning of its failure. The longer-term consequences are only hinted at in the introductory passages and are not examined in the detail that the revolution itself is accorded, for Coper offers an extensive analysis of the..."

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