PositiveThe Times (UK)... polished ... Weimar democracy would not have survived several attempts by the extreme left and right to seize power from 1919-23 unless it had genuine popular support, Gerwarth convincingly argues ... November 1918 is a perceptive study of an orderly people who proved that a revolution need not lead to extremes of left and right, but Gerwarth can’t quite dispel the air of doom hanging over the republic.