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[email protected] CANBERRA ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA USE OF THESES This copy is supplied for purposes of private study and research only. Passages from the thesis may not be copied or closely paraphrased without the written consent of the author. THE RUHR AND REVOLUTION: THE ORIGIN AND COURSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE RHENISH-WESTPHALIAN INDUSTRIAL REGION, 1912-1919 Jürgen Tampke A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Australian National University February 1975 i This thesis is my own work. Jürgen Tampke Acknowledgements This thesis was made possible by a Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship and a travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service. I visited a large number of archives for the research work and received friendly assistance everywhere. I would thus like to thank the staff of the HauptStaatsarchiv in Düsseldorf and the Staatsarchiv in Münster, the Zentrales Staatsarchiv in Potsdam and its historical division IT in Merseburg, the International Tnstituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis in Amsterdam, the Westphalian Economic Archive in Dortmund, the archive of the SPD in Bonn (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung), the archive of the DGB in Düsseldorf and the Coal Miners Union archive in Bochum as well as the Stadtarchive in Bochum, Bottrop, Castrop-Rauxel, Dorsten, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Hagen, Herne, Lünen, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Remscheid, Solingen, Wanne-Eickel, Witten and Wuppertal. Distance still presents a considerable problem to the student of European History in Australia.