ABSTRACT
In making the October Revolution, in concluding the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, in risking and fighting a civil war, Lenin was guided by a supreme faith that was to prove unjustified. The world revolution had failed to materialize, and the war had been brought to an end by that bourgeoisie which Lenin had been absolutely convinced could not terminate it. Much impressed by the Russian Revolution and the Red Army, Enver Pasha believed that the best hope for the losers at Versailles was to ally themselves with the growing power of the Soviet Union. After the Locarno Conference of September 15, 1925, at which Weimar Germany under Stresemann's leadership decided to join the League of Nations, the stabilization of the Weimar Republic became an established fact. However, the dramatic events of 1923–the Ruhr occupation, the inflation, the deep changes in the economic situation and ideology of the middle classes–left a deep impression on the social and political life of the Weimar Republic.
