This state was the site of an abortive uprising led by Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, the Beer Hall Putsch.
It's not Russia, but this subnational state was briefly ruled as a council republic by Jewish revolutionary Kurt Eisner until his assassination by a former army officer. This state was the site of a 1778 war during which starving soldiers pillaged its potato crops. A long-ruling dynasty of this state, the House of Wittelsbach, produced a patron of Wagner and builder of the (*) Neuschwanstein Castle, Mad King Ludwig. This state was the site of an abortive uprising led by Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, the Beer Hall Putsch. For 10 points, name this state in southeastern Germany, where Hitler joined the Nazi Party in its city of Munich.
It's not Russia, but this subnational state was briefly ruled as a council republic by Jewish revolutionary Kurt Eisner until his assassination by a former army officer.
Bavaria [or Bayern] &lt;WC History&gt;