Germans post world war two

Great offensive by Germans (March–June). Americans' first important battle role at Château-Thierry—as they and French stop German advance (June). Second Battle of the Marne (July–Aug.)—start of Allied offensive at Amiens, St. Mihiel, etc. Battles of the Argonne and Ypres panic German leadership (Sept.–Oct.). British offensive in Palestine (Sept.). Germans ask for armistice (Oct. 4). British armistice with Turkey (Oct.). German Kaiser abdicates (Nov.). Hostilities cease on Western Front (Nov. 11).

This atmosphere is strikingly similar to that which existed in post-Imperial Russia in 1917 and 1918, which led to the bloody dissolution of the democratically elected Constituent Assembly on January 18, 1918 by Lenin's Bolsheviks. Vladimir Brovkin, an expert on contemporary Russian politics and executive editor of DEMOKRATIZATSIYA, The Journal of Post-Soviet Affairs, argued during a briefing at RFE/RL's Washington office on 14 January that the stage is set for a further dissolut...