 Elsewhere, the successful October Revolution in Russia had facilitated the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) which produced the First Hungarian Republic and the Hungarian Soviet Republic.In Berlin, the German government and their Freikorps mercenaries fought and defeated the Spartacist uprising which began as a general strike.In Munich, the local Freikorps fought and defeated the Bavarian Soviet Republic.